U.S. Army Tests Robots For Future Combat

FORT IRWIN, California—For as long as the United States has had an army, U.S. infantry soldiers have stuck by one motto: "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes."

But fighting on the U.S. Army's largest training ground last month, Lt. Isaac McCurdy and his platoon of infantry troops, playing a fictional enemy of the United States, found themselves up against a very different kind of foe: one with camera lenses for eyes and sheet metal for skin.

Driving on eight screeching wheels and carrying enough firepower on their truck beds to fill a small arms depot, a handful of U.S. Army robots stormed through the battlefield of the fictional city of Ujen.

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