Raytheon CGI rendition: As we initially reported here, we now have the ability to shoot down aircraft with high-powered lasers. The LaWS (Laser Weapon System) and Maritime Laser Weapon Systems are built onto the Phalanx target-tracking platform, but use lasers instead of bullets to take down targets. Raytheon’s Maritime Laser Weapon System was just [...]
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No Comments »South Korea’s armed sentry robots which we discussed here and here have actually been deployed along South Korea’s border with the North. So far they are stationary only (as far as we know.) Once they are built onto mobile platforms, perhaps then people will begin to consider the ethical questions posed by the use of autonomous killing machines. (Yes, the [...]
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Posted in DARPA, defense, flying, military / law enforcement Tags: DARPA, flying, suv, vtol No Comments »Some of DARPA’s requirements for the vehicles: * flying/driving range of 250 miles * measure no more than 30 feet long by 8.5′ wide and 9′ high * perform vertical take-off and landing * carry four people * perform unmanned operations * and be easy enough to control that anyone who can drive a Humvee [...]
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Posted in AI, aquatic, autonomous, defense, featured, military / law enforcement, research Tags: Air Force, CTC, defense, military, navy No Comments »An article at nationaldefensemagazine.org yesterday commented: P.W. Singer, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the bestseller “Wired for War, recently spoke “…about the staggering rise in the deployment of robots on the battlefield. The U.S. military had only a handful of robots when it invaded Iraq. Now it operates 7,000 unmanned aircraft and more [...]
Posted in AI, DARPA, defense, ethics, flying, future, government, military / law enforcement, weapon Tags: combat, hype, military, revolution No Comments »“The OmniTread Serpentine Robot developed under supervision of Prof. Dr. Johann Borenstein at the University of Michigan since 1998.” The OmniTread OT4 has obvious applications for search and rescue. Pictures, videos, Papers here.
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