Also, some of the space robots are orbiters, rovers and landers. One of the orbiter robots is the mariner 4; it flew past mars on July 25, 1965. It also took the first close up photos of another planet. On the other hand, the first landers were the Viking landers, Viking 1 and 2. Viking 1 landed on July 20, 1976, and Viking 2 landed on September 3, 1976. According to Robots in Space by Nicholos Wethington “, both landers were accompanied by orbiters that took photos and scientific data from above the …show more content…
Robots do a lot of different things; they are used to do the risky jobs that cannot be done by soldiers. Walking through minefields, deactivating unexploded bombs or clearing out hostile buildings are examples of jobs that are so dangerous for humans, therefore they are done by robots. in case of anything wrong happening and under any circumstances no human is put into dangerous situations and there isnt any chance of losing a human life. Military robots can be traced back to the times of World War II. During the time of World War II and the Cold War, these robots were in the form of German Goliath tracked and Soviet teletanks. It is also believed that military robots history can be dated back to the 19th century, precisely in 1898. The history begins with the invention of radio controlled boat intended for military use by Nicola Tesla. The development of military robots can consider about US Mechatronics which has created or developed a working automated sentry gun and is presently developing it further for commercial as well as military use. As far as military robots development is concerned, we cannot forget MIDARS which is a four-wheeled military robot. There are many advantages of the military robots is that they have the capability to perform missions remotely in the field, the second advantage is that they have capability to perform a safety mission but it’s all goes to the one who’s in control, if he did it safe or not. But military robots don’t have any danger towards human lives, and they provide the element of protection. The robots that are used in the military called Daksh, Goalkeeper, PackBot, and the last robot called