The Use and Advantages of Military Robots
In the past few years there has been a great increase in the production of military robots. In today's world robots don't only perform tasks that don't have a great relevance in our daily life, but there are robots out there that even if we don't know about them we can say they provide security to our country. According to David Axe in his article "One in 50 Troops in Afghanistan is a Robot", "There are more than 2,000 ground robots fighting alongside flesh-and-blood forces in Afghanistan" (Axe, 2011). This number keeps on increasing and the number of human troops is decreasing. The United States military wants to cut down human soldiers to add more military robots. According to Evan Ackerman in his article "U.S. Army Considers Replacing Thousands of Soldiers With Robots" he states that "a U.S. Army officer announced that the Army is looking to slim down its personnel numbers and adopt more robots over the coming years" (Ackerman, 2014). The U.S. army has realized that the use of military robots can actually be of a great benefit to our country, if they can provide the same tasks that a human does. Today robots may not be as efficient as human, but they sure can do some tasks that can be dangerous to a human soldier.
The main advantage of using a military robot is that it can actually do jobs that may be dangerous and difficult to a soldier. In war there are many human casualties due to the fact that soldiers sometimes are sent to almost-suicidal missions. Today military robots are more capable of withstanding damage than humans, and most of the times they complete every mission. The main reason why military robots are now widely used is because if a military robot is destroyed by the enemy you just build a new one, and there's not a human loss. Another benefit of using a military robot is that it can be build and programmed to do a certain task and will do it way better than how a human would do it. A military robot can make the difference between a winning war and a losing war. Military robots can also include different types of weapons and sometimes are more efficient than a human controlling these weapons. In figure 1 we can see an example of a military robot with different weapons and features that actually make it more effective and better than a human soldier.
The main advantage of using a military robot is that it can actually do jobs that may be dangerous and difficult to a soldier. In war there are many human casualties due to the fact that soldiers sometimes are sent to almost-suicidal missions. Today military robots are more capable of withstanding damage than humans, and most of the times they complete every mission. The main reason why military robots are now widely used is because if a military robot is destroyed by the enemy you just build a new one, and there's not a human loss. Another benefit of using a military robot is that it can be build and programmed to do a certain task and will do it way better than how a human would do it. A military robot can make the difference between a winning war and a losing war. Military robots can also include different types of weapons and sometimes are more efficient than a human controlling these weapons. In figure 1 we can see an example of a military robot with different weapons and features that actually make it more effective and better than a human soldier.