The military hates to let a cool idea die, the J-UCAS smart drone was supposed to be an un manned areal vehicle that could take out the enemy or jam radar systems. Pretty much it was going to be tasked with trail blazing the way for manned missions into hostile territory. Not an all together bad idea, who likes to be shot at? However, after possible budget considerations, the idea of using this platform as an upgrade to the long range bomber fleet. With China fast becoming a replacement for our cold war adversary this tool may be just the thing we need to maintain balance in the world.
Making money at robot combat it hard to do. building them is expensive and there aren’t all that many places that are willing to hand over sponsor money now that BattelBots isn’t on TV any more. Running the events is even tougher, just finding a place that will let you have robot carnage can be quite daunting. And don’t get me started on the arena… Wow… Anyway, these two bright ex auto engineers might have a solution to all this. They have built a four player robot ‘king-of-the-hill’ into an arcade game. Plunk in your coins and the center combat ring (the ‘dohyo’ for those that are familiar with 
A fascinating selection of medical equipment. The tools of the medical profession are Always a treat to see, very practical and very elegant 