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American battle platform TALON SWORDS [Source: http://www.asimo.pl/modele/talon.php]

American battle platform TALON SWORDS [Source: http://www.asimo.pl/modele/talon.php]

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Mobile robots are increasingly replacing people in particularly dangerous situations and those at risk of losing their lives or health. One of such applications are military and preventive activities, where mobile robots are not only used for reconnaissance and patrol operations and the development trend is focused on the increasing use of mobile r...

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... example of an American combat robot is Foster-Miller TALON [4]. It is a small, weighing about 45kg robot on a tracked chassis with the possibility of being equipped with an armament module in the TALON SWORDS version (Figure 2). The use of TALON SWORDS robots in military missions was tested in Iraq. ...

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