[mechanicalbrain]

Well.... not ever being in the army i can only guess but it seems to me that you use camouflage to hide something valuable or crucial to a motion. I think if the army wanted decoys they would make them cheaper. Something like this is what you would deploy in a fire fight (all to familiar today) in which case it is invaluable. Also from looking at their designs of a suit control system i can only guess this is meant to be deployed by soldiers near deployment of the robot. Also i can't see the value of swarms of robots that are ineffective combatants being much good and if they are effective then you hit a price wall. Every robot Ive seen to date has been created to supplement troops and always close to site deployment not like miles and miles away. Military robots today generally fill one of these categories transports, mobile cover, weapon platforms, scouts, and point men. Frankly i wouldn't trust robots working by themselves due to the unstable forms of control you would have to use for control. I think one of the other uses for this robot is a sniper type role (from what i read the builder did some special designing to this purpose). I think we all know a robots camera can see at much better ranges than a human and its hand is much steadier, not to mention if its discovered its not some guy stuck on a roof somewhere. I don't know but the idea seems fine to me.