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From: jlg%hpclay@hp-sde.sde.hp.com
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: AI and military needs
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Date: 24 Jan 89 02:49:09 GMT
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>        / jharper@uunet.UU.NET /  3:34 pm  Jan 18, 1989 /
> Can anyone give me information on the US military's attempts to build
> a robotic vehicle - I think it travels(ed?) at ten miles per hour and
> weighed more than five tons.  
> 
> Are there general reports available on the military and AI?  Thanks
> for any information.
> 
> jharper@euroies.uucp
> Jerry Harper: Educational Research Centre, Dublin 9, IRELAND.
> ----------

The Ohio State University was conducting such research two years ago.
I believe they are still working on an eight-legged all-terrain 
artificial-intelligence lots-of-hyphens walker for military applications.

I'm not sure which departments are working on it, but I think the
electrical engineering and mechanical engineering departments are involved.


jlg%hpfcrg@hplabs.hp.com
Jeff Gerckens, Graphics Technology Division,Hewlett-Packard Company
"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you,
to rob them of thier wealth and to see those dear to them bathed in tears,
to ride thier horses and to clasp to your bosom thier wives and daughters."
   -- Ghengis Khan