Make has shared some pictures of a prototype airless tire currently under development for the U.S. Military.

The Ministry of Defense in the UK is working on a project that will allow video-game based military training simulations to release realistic smells as an added sensorial dimension. It’s hoped that by adding this extra sense data during training, soldiers will pay attention to the subtle information relayed by scent in the battlefield, and use it to their advantage. Commercial applications are expected to follow.
Mail Online reports:
Professor Bob Stone, research director of the Human Factors Integration Defence Technology Centre (HFIDTC) at Birmingham University, believes the technique could save soldiers’ lives.
‘Let’s say a unit is passing through a village somewhere [...]

We’ve recently heard way too many stories about the dangers of chimpanzees, but what about the dangers of future “life-forms”, like robots? Daily Tech points us to a recent US Navy funded report that presses the need for caution in designing any kind of robot designed for defense. Complex and semi-autonomous artificial intelligence powered robots could pose very real dangers if not designed carefully to differentiate between “good” and “bad” targets. The US Army encountered a harrowing situation earlier this year, when a software malfunction caused war robots to aim (but not fire) at friendly targets.
Daily Tech explains:
Robots gone rogue [...]