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Real-Life Droid Army of Robotic Spiders to Be Deployed 'By End of the Year'

In another creepy case of life mimicking fiction, BAE Systems is creating an army of robotic spiders that they will be selling to the US Army to use in warfare.

Dr. Joseph Mait of the US Army Research Lab explains, “Robotic platforms extend the warfighter's senses and reach, providing operational capabilities that would otherwise be costly, impossible, or deadly to achieve."

"The idea is to get a number of these working together – some tiny, some maybe up to a foot in length, and all going into a building together carrying out different tasks. Eventually we hope to have animals flying and slithering.

In other words, having robotic spiders scout ahead to find and lead you to whoever it is that you want to blow up could make the job a whole lot easier.

Defense giant BAE Systems is currently developing electronic spiders, flying insects, and snakes