Hi guys, here's a look at our upcoming Federal Army Robotic Platforms. They can be either RGPs (robotic gun platforms), RUPs (Robotic Utility Platforms), or Medibots.
The basic platform is a little mobility robot with a basic sense of independent intelligence, which can be instructed by microwave or other communications system by human combatants. It's a hull with a robot eye, and can accept four different drive trains – a track system, walker legs, wheels or a grav drive. These are a simple drop fit.
The RGP (robotic gun platform) has a weapons mount "hump" (as it's called by the infantrymen) and on that can be mounted one of three different robotic weapons – a medium pulser, a plasma gun or a missile launcher. Each one of these weapons is a robot separate from the mobility platform so if that is knocked out the robotic weapon can continue to fight. The two robots of course interact and work closely with each other to achieve the mission. Hopefully there is no C3PO-R2D2-like bickering!
Here's a picture of an RGP with the medium pulser, which is basically just like a machine gun if that's what you prefer it to be:
To give a better sense of the scale of the robot system, here's an image of it at about full size (at least on my monitor!) – the robotic platform is about 24mm long:
Here's a photo, not a great one I'm afraid, of an RGP more from the top, and this time with the track drive rather than the wheels. This is the plasma gun, which some of you may notice is the same design as the plasma gun carried by the Federal Army weapons specialist:
The RUP (robotic utility platform) is the same robotic body but the hump is a flatbed which generates a low-intensity reverse grav field so that items placed on it gently stick to it unless the field is disabled. This platform is used for a variety of functions – some carry three small snooper grav drones (basically a floating eyeball), others carry packs or spare ammo for the troops of a squad. These "Utes" are often used to carry a casualty back to the rear zone if there is no medibot available. I don't have a picture but trust me … it's flat. 
Finally we have the Medibot, which mounts not two but three different robots. Besides the mobility platform robot, there's a medical stasis robot and a retrieval/triage robot. The stasis robot is a chamber that holds a casualty in its "freezer" – similar to the tech used for extended space travel, it stalls the life functions of the casualty before they can further deteriorate. The bot's entire job is making sure the casualty stays in stasis. The retrieval/triage robot is a centauroid extension in the rear of the medibot which has powerful folding arms to scoop up the casualty. When a human medic is available to link in, he or she will appear on a monitor screen to talk to the casualty and evaluate the extent of the injury. When a human medic cannot switch on, the bot itself does the triage.
Retrieval works as follows. The folding arms extend, carefully slip under the casualty, and pick the casualty up, possibly deploying a reverse grav field if a simple physical lift would cause further injury or fatality, such as with a spinal injury. Then the retrieval bot pivots the casualty toward the stasis chamber. Meanwhile the stasis robot has pivoted 90 degrees on its axis, and the pod has slid back from its forward locked position, so that the chamber is centered directly below the casualty. The casualty is lowered, adjusted by the bot as may be necessary to minimize further trauma, and the stasis pod closes, is enabled, and the slides back up to its forward locked position on its mount, having pivoted to face front again. The stasis pod is lightly armoured against small arms fire. These medibots are generally legged or grav, as these are the drives that best allow for retrieval.
The prints for these have been sent off to the caster and should be cast within a month or so, subject to the already huge backlog of my stuff at their workshop of course! (Before anyone asks, these are with one of my pewter casters, so no, they will not be stuck in limbo with some of my models awaiting resin casting.)
The eyeball snooper drone is kind of fun, it's just an orb with a camera in front and two little grav engines on either side – sort of looks like EVA from Wall-E once she's hit middle age! 
It will have a zoom base available for it like the gun drone that the Control Battalions use.
Thanks, hope to have these in the market within a month and a half to two months.
paints another Grey Knights squad.
