] The education of Stryker, an 18-ton military monster
] truck, begins in the warehouse lab of General Dynamics in
] Westminster, Md.
]
] There, Stryker, one of the U.S. Army's newest infantry
] vehicles, is fitted with a "ladar" scanner, the
] equivalent of a mounted pair of eyes that see by emitting
] 400,000 laser and radar beams and snap 120 camera images
] every second. Its brain -- a 40-pound computer system
] tucked inside its body -- processes that data, and makes
] instant judgments on how to act and where to go.

An all-purpose un-manned land vehicle.

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