Pentagon prepares to build robot army
The Pentagon is spending 70 billion pounds on a programme to build heavily-armed robots for the battlefield in the hope that future wars will be fought without the loss of its soldiers' lives.
The scheme, known as Future Combat Systems, is the largest military contract in American history and will help to drive the defence budget up by almost 20 per cent to just over 265 billion pounds in five years' time.
Much of the cash will be spent computerising the military, but the ultimate aim is to take members of the armed forces out of harm's way. They would be replaced by robots capable of hunting and killing America's enemies.
In the far future it is hoped that the miniaturised robots will walk like humans, or hover like some birds. Others may look like insects.
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