Here’s one helluva remote controlled machine. It is an unmanned vehicle that tears through the toughest terrain at sixty miles an hour. An M1A Abrams Tank tops out at 42 MPH. It is remotely operated, possibly using something resembling a playstation 3 controller (hey, a guy can dream, can’t he?). This V8 powered beast can leap fifty feet in the air, crushing trees beneath it, utilizing a unique system to keep it from throwing a tread while performing these death-defying armored acrobatics.

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First up, it’s the spy bat:

It’s some sort of experimental spying device, blahblahblah… $10 million dollars for research awarded to university of Michigan, so on and so forth. Found at Geekologie.

Next up, we have a video of the ‘BigDog’, a robotic walking platform intended to help troops carry stuff. Watch as it defies gravity (by not falling down). What a scary beast.

Here we have the bugcam, some sort of mad scientist experiment where an insect is implanted with sensors at a very young age so that it grows around the electronics, essentially creating an insect cyborg. Via Dvice.