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Army testing unmanned Stryker convoys
Engineers conducting show-and-tell with a 20-ton robot on the last day of two weeks of trials on Fort Gordon were cautiously optimistic.Karl Murphy, a software engineer from Robotic Research, said there was a new principle of Murphys Law at work on the test field Feb. 10. "One of my professors reminded us that we have 'sight-ons' present whenever an experiment is being viewed, Murphy said. The more 'sight-ons' you have, the greater is the potential for something to go wrong." Tongue in cheek, he continued explaining that sight-on fields increase with the rank and reach of individuals viewing a test. With national, regional and local media rolling cameras, the sight-on field was very high that Friday. Posted by: tipper 2006-02-23 |
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