Noah turns in a damn good inside baseball piece on the competition for the next generation of killbots. Kind of reminds me of that movie, Tucker:
Ward had been a Negotiator fan since June 2006, smitten by its easy-to-use controller, its sharp-eyed camera, and, of course, its minuscule price tag. "It changed the whole perspective on what robots could cost. This was dramatically different, an order of magnitude different, from what we had seen," one military official says. "It had the potential of changing the whole landscape of robotics."