You simply log in from your laptop and tell it where to go

*This gizmo has got to be one of the coolest Internet peripherals ever.

*Of course, as soon as Al Qaeda builds one of these, you've got a silent, fuel-free,
unmanned, lethal terrorist U-Boat that can strike in oceans anywhere. But it
the meantime, wow that robot glider is nifty.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527533.200-oceanology-robot-gliders-swim-the-undersea-world.html

*Furthermore, you can always civilianize some technology that was built to kill people in the first place:

"The planes are really robotic satellite-aircraft hybrids" and soon they will be swarming over a melting pole somewhere:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24907/?nlid=2855&a=f