Copehill Down, on Salisbury Plain, is a mock-German town that spends most of its time pretending to be a Middle Eastern village for troop training sessions in urban warfare. But for three days in August it has had robots on patrol.
You can read the rest of my article on how today's defence equipment becomes tomorrow's civil surveillance (which is published today in the New Statesman) here.
Update: Ooooh, The Guardian's been looking and they've printed an extract from a previous post of mine on this topc in today's technology section(well it's easy to find in the print edition). Meanwhile the paper's green technology correspondent Alok Jha's latest podcast also discusses the Grand Challenge.
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