More support robots headed for the military
A “semi-autonomous forklift” isn’t going to raise any eyebrows, but when you consider the huge amount of food, ammo, and so on that are being dealt with every day, and the risks run by the people involved, it begins to make a lot of sense to replace them with robots. There’s an interesting video here (WMV, 27MB) showing how it might work. Video courtesy of CSAIL at MIT.
Of course, we’re also making an invincible supply line for the inevitable robot army that will destroy all humans, but hey. Most of the entries under the hateful Robocalypse tag cut both ways, although Littledog probably couldn’t do much except create a donut relay for pinned-down soldiers.