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National Defense February 2012 Stew Magnuson	Robot-Makers Ponder Next Moves as Wars Wind Down The end of the nearly nine-year war closed one chapter for a technology that came into its own during the conflict.
National Defense October 2012 Stew Magnuson	Ground Troops Demanding Smaller Robotic Systems Whether they are in the air or on the ground, small robots are increasingly becoming a vital part of a platoon's tactics, techniques and procedures.
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Dept. Forecasts Greater Use of Robots in Ground Combat Officials who oversee robot technology development at the Defense Department say it is just the beginning.
National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson	Proponents Hope 'Rodeo' Can Move Army Ground Robots Forward Representatives of some 50 companies, service research labs and universities gathered at Fort Benning, Georgia to show off the state of their art at the second annual Robotics Rodeo.
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson	Ground Robots' Place in Military At Risk, Experts Warn With the success of explosive ordnance disposal robots in Iraq and Afghanistan, one might assume that "mechanical soldiers" are here to stay. But that might not be the case.
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson	Slow Pace of Robot Acquisition Programs Frustrates End Users End users of explosive ordnance disposal robots said at a recent conference that the Pentagon's procurement process is clearly not working for them.
National Defense September 2007 Stew Magnuson	Gun-Toting Ground Robots See Action in Iraqi Streets The U.S. Army quietly entered a new era earlier this summer when it sent the first armed ground robots into action in Iraq.
National Defense January 2015 Sarah Sicard	Military Joint Ground Robot Programs Face Increased Scrutiny With tightening budgets and one high-profile program delayed by several years, ground robot acquisitions are coming under increasing congressional scrutiny, officials who oversee procurement of the technology said recently.
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson	Navy to Field a Family of Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy will field a family of bomb disposal robots to replace the ad hoc commercial systems being used in Iraq and Afghanistan today.
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper	Market for Ground Robots Poised for a Turnaround The market for ground robots is set to expand as technology advancements give the machines greater utility on the battlefield and elsewhere, according to defense officials and industry experts.
National Defense October 2009 Stew Magnuson	Failure To Field The Right Robots Costs Lives, General Says The lives of 122 soldiers would have been saved if the right robots had been in place, said the commanding general of the Army's 3rd Armored Corps, at a recent industry conference.
National Defense June 2010 Stew Magnuson	Efforts to Field New Kinds of Ground Robots Have Had Little Success Their predicted influx into the battlefield has stalled. That's not to say that research into myriad applications hasn't continued. But so far, the experiments have not made the transition to the current fights.
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean	New Robots Planned for Bomb Disposal Teams Explosive ordnance disposal teams in the next few years will acquire a new family of specially developed robots to fight IEDs, or improvised explosive devices.
National Defense January 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Buried Bombs Can Be Destroyed, But Not Defeated The weapons of choice of U.S. enemies, improvised explosive devices, are like deadly viruses that mutate in reaction to vaccines. They cannot be wiped out, only temporarily thwarted.
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson	Army to Integrate Ground Robots Into Forces After years of using rapidly fielded, but temporary ground robots in its forces, the Army will soon roll out plans to make them a permanent part of its arsenal.
National Defense September 2007 Breanne Wagner	Navigation System Advances Army's Pursuit of Unmanned Vehicles The Army will begin a series of tests in October that could demonstrate whether ground combat robots can find their way autonomously in the battlefield.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005	Army unmanned ground systems go where humans cannot Retired Navy Vice Adm. Joe Dyer, executive vice president and general manager of iRobot's Government & Industrial Robots division, answers questions about the recently released -- the PackBot Explorer.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Opportunities for Non-Military Robots Increase In the last decade, the U.S. military poured money into unmanned ground systems to help protect troops against improvised explosive devices, but the Defense Department won't need all those robots once the war in Afghanistan comes to a close.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale	Robots Are Fearless The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program will integrate unmanned ground vehicles into a future force. Autonomous ground vehicles promise to be a major paradigm shift in ground warfare.
National Defense May 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Robots Are Major Players In U.S. Military Strategy The use of robots in warfare has long ceased to be a topic for science fiction and the technology has now become an essential component of the U.S. arsenal.
National Defense September 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Army Seeks Robots That Are Interoperable With Allies From disarming improvised explosive devices to scoping out buildings before troops arrive, unmanned ground vehicles have played an integral role in warfare over the last decade. U.S. forces and NATO allies are now seeking to collaboratively develop UGVs.
National Defense July 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Next-Generation Robots: Bigger and Better? The exploits of bomb-sniffing robots in Iraq and Afghanistan have solidified their role as useful combat tools, but the technology needs to be pushed much further, say robot designers and engineers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	The time has come for military ground robots Military robots for ground applications are coming into their own as U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) leaders are increasing their reliance on unmanned ground vehicles.
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel	Army Enlists More Help from Tiny Robots Soldiers in Afghanistan want their own personal robots to scan the insides of buildings and find homemade bombs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Ben Ames	Smaller Sensors Make Unmanned Vehicles Smarter Army researchers are now developing another part of FCS-an armed robotic vehicle (ARV) that uses autonomous sensors and weapons to minimize soldiers' battlefield exposure.
National Defense October 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Deploying Robotic 'Mule' To Troops in Afghanistan The Army is deploying an unmanned ground vehicle to troops in Afghanistan for a several-month long evaluation in combat operations.
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean	Ground Robots Coming of Age With Expanding Missions It's an exciting time for ground robots as they get more integrated into operations.
National Defense September 2015 Stew Magnuson	Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot Program at Risk of Collapse After eight years of development, the Navy has failed to field a next generation of inter-service bomb disposal robots, and Army and Air Force officers are calling the future of the program into question.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Courtney E. Howard	iRobot Advances State of the Art in Military Robotics iRobot engineers are applying mobile robot design and production experience to deliver a robot that is small, inexpensive, intelligent, and robust.
National Defense November 2015 Stew Magnuson	Marine Corps R&D Focuses on Urban Scenarios That the Marine Corps would like to return to its expeditionary, sea-based roots after serving the past decade in Iraq and Afghanistan is well known.
National Defense July 2013 Stew Magnuson	Robotic Mule Vendors Seek Opportunities Outside Military Lockheed Martin is eying border patrol, perimeter security, mining, logging and construction markets for its robotic mule, said Myron Mills, the company's squad mission support system program manager.
National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Soldiers Teaching Robots Battlefield Duties An Army Research Lab is working to instill robots with complex behaviors, thus making them suitable for the battlefield.
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson	Armed Robots Sidelined in Iraqi Fight The first three armed ground robots deployed onto a battlefield are stuck behind sandbags and are not patrolling Iraqi streets as its inventors envisioned.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	Makers of ground robots ask for better sensors and communication links Troops in Iraq are in desperate need of unmanned ground systems (UGSs) to dispose of land mines and booby traps.
National Defense December 2013 Dan Parsons	Future of Rapid Equipping Force Remains in Doubt In Afghanistan, U.S. troops wanted robots to search caves where fighters were hiding. The Rapid Equipping Force found a commercial robot called the PackBot, outfitted it with a camera and sent it downrange in a matter of weeks.
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson	Soldiers Test Tools for Urban Surveillance Field tests begin for the first technologies scheduled to reach soldiers' hands from the Future Combat Systems program.
National Defense June 2015 Allyson Versprille	Army Still Determining Best Use for Driverless Vehicles The Army's effort to introduce unmanned vehicles into its inventory has slowed as the service's budget tightens and questions remain on how the technology will be used.
National Defense March 2007 Stew Magnuson	Navy Begins Work on Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robot Robots have been credited with saving countless lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. In light of this success, the Navy has embarked on an ambitious program to build its next generation of counter-explosives machines.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Lora G. Weiss	Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain.
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson	Navy to Do Without Prime Contractors On New Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy this year will begin constructing its next-generation of explosive ordnance disposal robots.
National Defense October 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Robots Aid Soldiers, But Can be Irritating Feedback from soldiers on the use of robots in combat is leading researchers to believe that robotic technology has the potential to become a huge assist in combat operations, but that too much automation may not be desirable.
Popular Mechanics March 2008 Erik Sofge	America's Robot Army: Are Unmanned Fighters Ready for Combat? The MULE (Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment) is one of many robots being developed for combat.
National Defense November 2009 Stew Magnuson	Debate Over Rules, Legality of Robots On The Battlefield Lagging, Experts Say As researchers push ahead with algorithms designed to give robots more autonomy, ethicists and legal minds warn that not enough thought is being given to the implications of using unmanned systems to apply lethal force.
The Motley Fool April 24, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Honey, I Shrunk the Military Robots The consumer robotics specialist gets small with its latest creation. iRobot machines can get soldiers out of combative jams and consumers out of filthy homes, so it may be just a matter of time before shareholders catch a break, too.
The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Jack Uldrich	iRobot Loses a Battle Shares fall following news that a major contract to supply lightweight tactical robots to the U.S. Army was awarded to a rival. Investors, take note.
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Erico Guizzo	$280 Million Robot Dustup Roomba maker accuses military contract winner of stealing trade secrets.
National Defense July 2014 Dan Parsons	Army Wants Trucks to Drive Without Troops The Army wants to retrofit a portion of its tactical wheeled vehicle fleet with robotic brains so that unmanned trucks, not troops, are put in harm's way during resupply and route clearance missions.
National Defense June 2008 Stew Magnuson	First Responders Slow to Take Up Robot Technology First responders investigating potential incendiary devices are utilizing the latest robotic devices, but other parts of the emergency services community have been slow to take up the technology.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Pentagon Still Playing Catch-Up With Bomb Makers The U.S. military's cadre of bomb disposal technicians needs lighter equipment, the ability to detect explosives at stand-off distances and their sensors consolidated into one handheld device.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Companies Vie for Chance to Update Bomb Disposal Robots With a chance to build the Navy's next bomb-disposal robots at their fingertips, unmanned systems manufacturers have an opportunity to tap into one of the only fully funded programs in the autonomous vehicle pipeline. Eager industry officials believe a contract award is imminent.