Israel's unmanned bulldozers breaking ground in Gaza war

‘Even better than a human’: Israel deploys unmanned bulldozers in Gaza war, ushering in a new era of modern warfare

TEL AVIV, April 20 — At first glance, there is nothing unusual about the bulky bulldozer turning up soil at a testing site in central Israel, but as it pulled closer it became clear: the driver’s cabin is eerily empty. This is the Robdozer, a fortified engineering vehicle manned remotely, and in this case operated from a military expo halfway across the globe in Alabama. Army engineers and military experts say that the Robdozer — the robotic ver…

Israel's unmanned bulldozers breaking ground in Gaza war

At first glance, there is nothing unusual about the bulky bulldozer turning up soil at a testing site in central Israel, but as it pulled closer it became clear: the driver's cabin is eerily empty.This is the Robdozer, a fortified engineering vehicle manned remotely, and in this case operated from a military expo halfway across the globe in Alabama.Army engineers and military experts say that the Robdozer -- the robotic version of Caterpillar's …

At first glance, this imposing bulldozer that travels through an outpost in Tel Aviv, the city of Israel, has nothing unusual, except when one notices and realizes that the driver’s cabin is strangely empty. Deployed on a test site, this armored mastodon is being controlled remotely from a military show fair in Alabama, in the United States, thousands of kilometres away. It is the tele-directed version of an apparatus that Israeli troops have be…