DRDO’s futuristic weapons: Robotic mules and soldiers
Baku, December 12 (AZERTAC). India`s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) is in the process of building robotic soldiers and mules as a part of its unmanned fighting systems of the future, said an official on Sunday.
“We are working on building soldier robots that can work like a human soldier. Such a robot needs database, artificial intelligence to carry out its activities and the DRDO is planning to build such a robot,” V K Saraswat, scientific advisor to defense minister and director general, DRDO, told reporters.
After inaugurating new facilities inside the Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE) campus, he said the DRDO was also planning to design a robotic mule that could replace a real one used by soldiers in mountainous terrain.
The DRDO has already developed Daksh, a remote-controlled robotic vehicle, for detecting and destroying dangerous objects like bombs. Daksh has been approved by the Indian Army and is ready for induction.
The army will start trials of DRDO’s main battle tank Arjun Mark II from October 2012, said P Sivakumar, director of CVRDE.
He said the army had ordered 124 units of the upgraded Arjun tanks.
DRDO is also planning to design a robotic mule that could replace a real one used by soldiers in hilly areas
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