"Thank goodness our crews have a robot." The four-wheel robot followed the alligator for 340 feet before getting stuck, leaving the animal to wander off. More from News Crews looking into a series ...

they saw the long tail of the alligator and followed it through the pipes," Oviedo city officials said. "Thank goodness our crews have a robot", officials added, warning locals not to wander down ...

The unmanned surface vehicle (USV), known as Alligator-9, can launch a swarm of kamikaze drones or be fitted with a laser weapon system to fry enemy drones, helicopters, missiles, and so on.