13.02.2008 20:06 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

HARV gives soldiers a robot's-eye view

Filed under: Robots, Wearables While battlefield robots are certainly plenty capable with their current control systems, the folks at Chatten Associates seem to think they can do things one better, and they're now touting their so-called HARV (Head-Aimed Remote Viewer) system as a potential alternative. That consists of a gimbal-mounted video system on the robot itself, which gets paired with some gyro-equipped goggles that let the robot to look around wherever the solider moves his head. Of course, they didn't stop things there, with the setup also offering a 36x optical zoom, night vision, a

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