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IDF Envisions Army of Animal Robots for Rescue Missions, Military Ops.

Article from: Israel Faxx Article date: November 21, 2008

By Ha=92aretz

A cat-bot that climbs the walls using its claws, a dog-droid that responds to human movements, and a robot which releases glue through its wheels while scaling buildings met Wednesday in Herzliya. This might sound like the beginning of a joke or a description of the scene of a science fiction movie like Star Wars. In reality though, this was the scene at a robot exhibition in the central coastal town.

The wall-scaling robot may look like a small mechanical toy, but in practice it is quite a sophisticated ...

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