Engineers at the Pentagon have cooked up quite a beast. A DARPA robot tank is a self-driving vehicle that has been engineered as part of DARPA's RACER (Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency) program, and it is quite formidable.
The 20-foot tank is able to bound across off-road terrain as if it were a sports car on asphalt, and it doesn't require any human input to get it where it's going. One of the most recent tests saw the RACER Heavy Platform (RHP) autonomous tank...