Combat vehicle planned

Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Consortium and Boeing Integrated Defense Systems in St. Louis will receive $5.5 million over 18 months to construct the first all-terrain, unmanned ground combat vehicle. It will be named the Spinner. With no humans aboard the vehicle, engineers can ignore amenities, but the final product will climb four-foot steps, stay on duty for 14 days without refueling and hit the war scene faster than a tank. The vehicle is expected to operate even if it's turned over. It can also stack itself on top of similar vehicles.