Military robots are either autonomous or remote controlled devices that are designed and used for wartime applications. These machines are able to carry out missions in extremely dangerous areas without needing to risk the unnecessary loss of human lives. Most of these robots do not have very sophisticated artificial intelligence programs. Human operators control them remotely, instead.

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They can perform functions that can vary from data gathering to clearing anti-personnel land mines. Smaller robots that are designed to help operations on the battlefield are made to be man-portable, which means that they can be carried by a single soldier in a kind of specially-manufactured backpack.