US Army soldiers unload a robot to deactivate an IED they discovered on a main road in Yosef Khel district of Paktika province.

A remotely-operated TALON explosives ordinance disposal robot prepares to defuse a roadside bomb during an IED-clearing mission by US soldiers from Fox company, 4th squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment in western Baquba, northeast of Baghdad.

A robot prepared by a US soldier from the 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, patrols to check a suspected road side bomb, in a street of Baghdad.

A remotely-controlled US Army robot moves in to deactivate an IED discovered on a main road in Yosef Khel district of Paktika province.

An anti-IED robot known as the 'Dragon Runner' on display during a photocall on military technologies in London.

U.S. Marine Sgt. Nicholas Bender launches a Raven surveillance drone from Marine base perimeter near the remote village of Baqwa, Afghanistan.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Casey Tidgewell prepares an MQ-9 Reaper for a training flight at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada.

A full-scale model of The RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned plane is displayed during a presentation at PiO Exhibition Center in Tokyo, Japan.

On May 10th, Boeing unveiled the fighter-sized Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system, a test bed for advanced technologies. Phantom Ray is designed to support potential missions that may include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; suppression of enemy air defenses; electronic attack; strike; and autonomous aerial refueling.

Golden Eye 50 UAV

The British Autosub autonomous submarine robot.

The Robotic Hull Bio-inspired Underwater Grooming tool, or HULL BUG, is being tested by the Office of Naval Research as a hull-cleaning device. The HULL BUG is similar in concept to an autonomous robotic home vacuum cleaner and uses a biofilm detector to differentiate between the clean and unclean surfaces on the hull of a ship.