US Marine Corps Develops Missile-Firing Robot

The U.S. Marine Corps is developing a transportable and highly expeditionary missile-armed ground robot vehicle able to maneuver into attack positions from land and sea.

But humans will always remain in control when it comes to the use of lethal force firing from the robotic vehicle.

“By going with a teleoperated vehicle, we increase the survivability of the crews because they’re not co-located with the launcher, which tends to be what gets targeted,” Joe McPherson, the program manager for Long Range Fires at Marine Corps Systems.