Securing an intersection is a basic combat task that the Pentagon hopes will one day be tackled by unattended robots. In the scenario below, set in 2020, an armed robot has forged ahead of a squad (not shown) to determine if a sniper is stationed at a key corner. As simple as the mission might seem, it’s a huge engineering challenge to program the skills needed for the assignment into a robot’s brain. Experts say success will require integrated sensors to double for human sensory organs and powerful processing of the data to mimic human training—and instinct. “What is intuition?” asks Jon Bornstein, head of the Army Research Lab’s robotics office. “A series of cues that give a high probability of something occurring.”
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