Reply #2: You did good research norml, however....

[Silverhair]

the following bit is my own contribution from my original post, and not part of the original news article.

"This is basically the bomb disposal robot with a gun, sighting & aiming system installed. All the technology is already proven stuff, just the first time it has been assembled this way in one package. So the thing should work as advertised. That will then be the spur to develop robots designed for combat from scratch. Since all the technology already exists, the design phase should not take long at all.

The robots do require a human to control them."

That's the part I wrote. The stuff above that is from the news article at: http://www4.army.mil/news/article.php?story=6613

The rest is your excellent research. I am not being sarcastic. You really did great research.