The military is in the market for insect robots. Nothing new, really.

The robots will slither and crawl around corners, into caves, and through booby-trapped streets, sending images back to screens in a command center or to a screen mounted on a soldiers wrist. The purpose is to “extend the warfighter’s senses and reach, providing operational capabilities that would otherwise be costly, impossible, or deadly to achieve,” says Joseph Mait, MAST cooperative agreement manager for the Army Research Laboratory.

Wouldn’t a “warfighter” be a person fighting “against” a war and not “in” the war?

(via geekologie)