Pentagon Prepares to Deploy Advanced Robot Soldiers

The U.S. Department of Defense will soon spend about $1 billion to deploy robot soldiers in the field, alongside -- and eventually in place of -- human troops. "Within five years, I have no doubt there will be robots in every Army formation," said Bryan McVeigh, the Army's project manager for force protection, as quoted in an article published by Bloomberg. McVeigh reported that there have been about 800 robots put into military service within the last 18 months. "This is an exciting time to be working on robots with the Army." The American branch of the British-based science and technology conglomerate QinetiQ and the Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based Endeavor Robotics have received the lion's share of the contracts to develop the robot warriors.