Smarter ground robots partnering with Soldiers
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DefenceTalk“In the Army, we always say, ‘never send our Soldier into a fair fight.’ Each of you here,” from the robotics community, are “helping to make that happen,” said Heidi Shyu, assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Shyu, who provided the keynote address at National Defense Industrial Association’s Ground Robotics Capabilities […]https://www.defencetalk.com/smarter-ground-robots-partnering-with-soldiers-60357/
Combat robots to become Russian army new recruits
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DefenceTalkRussia’s newly established military robot design lab has finally gone into operation, Oleg Bochkarev, deputy head of Russia’s governmental Military-Industrial Commission told ITAR TASS news agency. Russia’s deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin was the first to have announced plans to set up a new laboratory at the Degtyarev arms factory in Kovrov last year planning […]https://www.defencetalk.com/combat-robots-to-become-russian-army-new-recruits-59769/
Smarter robots likely in Army’s future, planners say
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DefenceTalkUnmanned robots already have proven their worth on the battlefield, neutralizing improvised explosive devices, and more capable ones are coming in the future, according to the commander of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. While robots and unmanned platforms will continue to provide valuable assistance to Soldiers on the battlefield, there may even come a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/smarter-robots-likely-in-armys-future-planners-say-50157/
Technology one step ahead of war laws
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DefenceTalkToday’s emerging military technologies-including unmanned aerial vehicles, directed-energy weapons, lethal autonomous robots, and cyber weapons like Stuxnet-raise the prospect of upheavals in military practices so fundamental that they challenge long-established laws of war. Weapons that make their own decisions about targeting and killing humans, for example, have ethical and legal implications obvious and frightening enough […]https://www.defencetalk.com/technology-one-step-ahead-of-war-laws-50045/
Northrop’s CaMEL to Participate In Robotics Demo and Armed Live Fire
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DefenceTalkNorthrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) has been selected to demonstrate its Carry-all Modular Equipment Landrover, called CaMEL, during the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence Robotics Limited Demonstration Oct. 7-10 at Fort Benning, Ga. Northrop Grumman’s CaMEL will participate in both parts of the center’s ‘robot rodeo:’ A ‘lighten-the-load’ CaMEL configuration will traverse the Squad-Multipurpose Equipment […]https://www.defencetalk.com/northrops-camel-to-participate-in-robotics-demo-and-armed-live-fire-49314/
US, allies test unmanned ground systems
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DefenceTalkThe Maneuver Battle Lab revealed a glimpse into the future as the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations collaborated to use one another’s robots in military operations. The lab conducted an interoperability experiment July 17 at the McKenna Urban Operations Complex to demonstrate how U.S., Turkish and German technical developers could use their […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-allies-test-unmanned-ground-systems-48613/
US Orders Talon IV EOD Robots for Pakistan
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DefenceTalkQinetiQ North America, Waltham, Mass., is being awarded a $7,772,646 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of Talon IV vehicles, spares and training. This contract will support Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to Pakistan (100 percent). The Talon IV robot provides the military’s explosive ordnance disposal technicians with a man transportable capability to remotely perform reconnaissance. Work […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-orders-talon-iv-eod-robots-for-pakistan-48466/
Heftier unmanned ground vehicle offers more lifting, hauling strength
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DefenceTalkA small car can’t pull a heavy trailer. Sports utility vehicles don’t have a compact car’s fuel efficiency. A perfect, one-size-fits-all vehicle doesn’t exist. The same goes for unmanned ground vehicles, known as UGVs. Soldiers use UGVs — such as the 40-pound PackBot or the larger, 115-pound TALON — to detect and defeat roadside bombs, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/heftier-unmanned-ground-vehicle-offers-more-lifting-hauling-strength-48040/
Rights group launches campaign to ban ‘killer robots’
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DefenceTalkA global rights group launched a campaign on Tuesday to ban Terminator-style “killer robots” amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the power to make their own decisions about killing humans. Human Rights Watch said it was creating an international coalition to call for a global treaty that would impose […]https://www.defencetalk.com/rights-group-launches-campaign-to-ban-killer-robots-47593/
Army laboratories collaborate on octopus-inspired suction cups
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DefenceTalkNatural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis can unveil points of weakness in man-made infrastructure, and now robots are being called in to help. Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, and Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, or ECBC, here, are developing suction cups that could be placed on robots designed to perform tasks […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-laboratories-collaborate-on-octopus-inspired-suction-cups-46646/