A group of research teams has been contracted by the military to develop sophisticated, unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance devices. Specifically, they are trying to computerize ground surveillance, which up until now has been the bread and butter of James Bond.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which has been charged with contracting the research teams, has stressed the importance of such a system, which would require the computerized system to visually process information at the ground level. They claim to be "addressing this problem with Mind's Eye, a program aimed at developing a visual intelligence capability for unmanned systems." The research teams include more than a dozen university-based departments, as well as a trio of private companies who are looking into the software required for an "unmanned ground vehicle."
In so many words, the Mind's Eye system would be capable of doing what only humans have been capable of until Ahnold traveled back to before Judgment Day and showed us meatbags how it's done. Truly something "strait [sic] out of the Terminator movies," its applications include "opening doors and drawers," as well as disarming bombs and tracking moving objects (machine or otherwise). DARPA has already begun looking into a "perch-and-stare" monitoring system, which entails the creation of self-piloted surveillance devices traveling into enemy territory and monitoring them terroristsumbssobitches.
As you might have guessed, this means we're only a few decades away from this:
Note: Why is there a little mushroom robot on my screen...oh no.
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