robot airdrop recon ground robot
Helicopter Robot Airdrops Recon Ground Robot, No Humans Necessary
In essence, performing reconnaissance is all about trying to find something that you really don't want to find. Maybe you're looking for enemy forces, or maybe you're trying to locate sources of chemical or biological or radiological contamination. In any case, having a team of humans finding what they're looking for, while technically a success, is not really something to look forward to. "Oh hey, looks like we found that insanely dangerous thing we've been searching for, hooray!" You know what comes next: let's get the robots to do this sort of thing instead, right?