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Robot guard patrols with an attitude.


The Guardium perimeter security system, featuring an autonomous unmanned ground security vehicle called M-Guard, provides perimeter security for government and military facilities, as well as transportation and industrial hubs.

Produced by the Lahav division of Israel Aircraft Industries, the mobile robot A Mobile Robot is an automatic machine that is capable of movement in a given environment. Overview
Mobile robots have the capability to move around in their environment and are not fixed to one physical location.
, which is equipped with cameras and other sensors
  • Thermocouple
  • RTD - Resistance Temperature Detector or Resistance thermometer or Pt100
  • Microphone
  • Hydrophones
  • Seismometers
  • Photoresistor
  • Phototransistor
  • Infrared thermometer
  • Multi-User Multimodal Tabletop Interaction
  • Cationic Sensor
, is able to navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web.

(2) To move through the menu structure in a software application.
 a variety of ground features. In the event of a perimeter breach, a company official said, M-Guard "immediately reacts to isolate isolate /iso·late/ (i´sah-lat)
1. to separate from others.

2. a group of individuals prevented by geographic, genetic, ecologic, social, or artificial barriers from interbreeding with others of their kind.
, contain and control intruders until backup support arrives."
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Title Annotation:Tech Talk
Author:Williams, Robert H.
Publication:National Defense
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:7ISRA
Date:Sep 1, 2004
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