New Remote System Lets Handlers Guide Their Dogs From Afar

Don't need remote control to see the dog doesn't like it.
It seems to have been hit before and is not happy.

I do understand that dogs like to do stuff but they should be happy when doing it.

Did you glean all of that from the picture, Jefro, or did the dog phone you and tell you?

WDE.

Dog was hit? How can you tell? All I see is a master dealing with the dog.
I don't see Auburn Engineering students going around performing animal abuse. Besides the obvious "don't perform animal abuse on camera" thing, Auburn has a good Vet. School. Auburn isn't so big that the Engineers would be able to get away causing harm (physical or phycological) on animals without some questions getting asked.

WDE im from auburn! its great to see my hometown making headlines

This technology may be more fitting of the January 2011 front page title and bull glam shot of “Robots Bite Back”. It would be far easier for the military to train a large numbers of remote control dogs with offensive weapons attached for combat than perfect an all terrain ground robot.

@tomcat46 I am an Auburn Alum and lived there close 7 years my self. some fun facts about Auburn: More astronauts have graduated from Auburn than any other uni or college in the world. Founder of Wikipedia is an Auburn Alum. Dr. Forgothisname who was my digital circuits teacher also makes bomb detonators for the DOD and he designed the modern trigger for airbags making them deploy about 100 times faster.

I agree with you that dogs are incredibly intelligent and they also have selective hearing just like children. Dogs can tune their hearing where they can hear you from long distances. When my boxer and I walk through the woods, he disappears quite often behind trees and big rocks and that stresses me out because I don't know what he is going to run into, so I devised a clicking sound with my tongue of different wave lengths and when I can no longer see him, I make sever rapid high pitch clicks that tells him that I am stressed or in trouble and he always comes running to see if I'm alright.

"jefro", that lab has not been abused; he is submissive because he is not use to that weight on his back and he doesn't understand why it is there. When he gets use to the weight and understands why it is there, he will be his joyful self again.

"...it allows handlers to maintain remote contact with their animals without maintaining a line of sight..."

How will we know what commands to issue if we don't know where the dog is?

I see tail under, legs flat, neck down, ears down, head tilted to left side down. I don't care what you say. At some point in that dogs life someone made some move that causes these features. Guess you could ask Cesar Millan for a second opinion. I have seen a number of trainers who's dogs do police and military work. While they may not meet the word abuse, I also may not agree with they way they treat them.