http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/07/us-government-creates-its-very-own-decepticon Check out the video at the link above! We get closer to SkyNet every day.
Thought I recognized the name: http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/20...t-could-make-Marine-pack-mules-obsolete-video These guys are doing some great shit.
Probably one of the biggest impacts Iraq and Afghanistan will have will be on the tech that came out of it, especially when it comes to robotics and artificial limbs. And increasingly it looks like those two streams could merge within the next decade.
Just wait until the killer cheetah comes for you. It will be like the Inorganics in Robotech: Sentinals.