One of the top US defense industry companies has come out with a new unmanned ground vehicle or UGV which holds 1200 pounds on its platform, and even a 50 caliber machine gun. When the troops are marching a long-distance they can put all their heavy gear on top of the vehicle and it will follow them. Basically it's a robotic ATV quad with a flat platform on top, and lots of hooks to carry the loads.
Now then, I am almost positive that soon these types of vehicles will be available for those people who use ATVs to go hunting, camping, or even researchers that go out into the wild to study animals, birds, or other species. It is an all-terrain vehicle they can go just about anywhere, and therefore it has many more applications than purely military.
Now obviously if you are going camping, you won't need the 50 caliber machine gun atop, but if you are going deer hunting, or if you're going to hunt elk or mouse, you're going to need a pretty big vehicle to bring back whatever it is you shoot. Best of all these new Army ATVs have long-range fuel tanks.
All you have to do is wear a certain device, and the ATV will follow you and avoids obstacles along the way. You don't have to steer it, it has sensors which seek out rocks, debris, blogs, and it can climb up hills, go through creeks, or just about anything you ask it to do.
It will follow you and take all your gear with you. That means you can do a 50 mile hike into the wilderness, with all your gear and never have to worry about it. Best of all it can go places that you could never get a 4-wheel drive truck. Please consider all this.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 21,500 articles was a lot of work - because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off.
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