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Robots
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Canadian ground robot survives Atlantic drop, crawls back to shore
Rheinmetall’s Mission Master 2.0 UGV completed its first sea-to-shore run during NATO’s REPMUS exercise in Portugal.
interestingengineering.com
So the Rheinmetall Argo Mission Master is now amphibious. It can be dropped over the side, find its way to shore and crawl up the beach.
Sounds like a neat SAR/MAJAID capability.
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In the 1980s the 7th Infantry Division was designated a Light division and equipped with dune-buggies, Chenoweths IIRC.
Now it seems that somebody figures a similar stripped down platform makes a valid base for an AI RWS turret. it would retain a "man-in-the-loop".
Question: What fitness level is required of the person operating/controlling/supervising such a system?
Now it seems that somebody figures a similar stripped down platform makes a valid base for an AI RWS turret. it would retain a "man-in-the-loop".
Question: What fitness level is required of the person operating/controlling/supervising such a system?
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Dirty, scarred, battered and bruised.
11 months on the BMW line
30,000 vehicles,
90,000 sheet metal parts
1250 hours of run time
200 miles covered in the factory
Their primary task involved lifting sheet-metal parts from bins and placing them on welding fixtures with a 5-millimeter tolerance. After placement, traditional robotic arms performed the welding. The humanoids handled metal loading with a cycle time of 84 seconds, including 37 seconds for the load. Accuracy stayed above 99 percent, the firm stated in the press release.
interestingengineering.com
11 months on the BMW line
30,000 vehicles,
90,000 sheet metal parts
1250 hours of run time
200 miles covered in the factory
Their primary task involved lifting sheet-metal parts from bins and placing them on welding fixtures with a 5-millimeter tolerance. After placement, traditional robotic arms performed the welding. The humanoids handled metal loading with a cycle time of 84 seconds, including 37 seconds for the load. Accuracy stayed above 99 percent, the firm stated in the press release.
Figure humanoid robots retire bruised after 11 months of work at BMW
Figure AI has retired its Figure 02 humanoid robots after an 11-month industrial run inside BMW’s Spartanburg plant.
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Ukrainians make a new truck drone that drives up to battlefield with remote .50 caliber turret.
A Ukrainian firm has combined its ground drone with a remotely piloted M2 Browning turret to make a lethal truck that can be operated from afar.
www.businessinsider.com
Desert Rats without Troy
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So, ~900 (90,000 x 1%) of these parts were placed more than 5mm out of spec? That sounds more like Cyber Truck build quality than BMW.
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I got the impression they were loading machines and piling pallets with 5mm accuracy, not doing final fits.
Could be wrong.
Given that they were battered and bruised like me after a shift I am assuming grunt work.
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Ukrainian builder of fronline UxVs
Autonomy isn't there yet. It is necessary and it is coming but it isn't here yet. Overhyped.
www.businessinsider.com
Remote control, yes. Autonomy, no.
Autonomy isn't there yet. It is necessary and it is coming but it isn't here yet. Overhyped.
Ukrainian robotics company says autonomy in defense is overhyped — but it's also past the point of no return
Defense forces "want a hundred percent reliability and the AI is just not there," Ark Robotics' founder and CEO told Business Insider.
www.businessinsider.com
Remote control, yes. Autonomy, no.
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I don't think we are here yet but some folks obviously do....
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In Two Years 50,000 ‘Battle Droids’ May Replace Some of US Army Servicemen | Defense Express
While on the real battlefield, unmanned ground vehicles have become actively distributed this year, and we are talking mainly about logistical platforms, in the US they dream of full-fledged combat humanoid robot, which will replace the military and will even be able to hold an automatic rifle...
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Aussie Army robot exercises
"Dozens of drones fly undetected above an enemy position feeding real-time surveillance back to the commander while he prepares a warning order.
"This commander has a tank troop and mechanised platoon, remote-controlled combat vehicles, autonomous robots and hundreds more drones.
"He deploys a second drone swarm jamming the enemy’s communications, giving them no chance of back-up for what’s coming next."
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"With the enemy comms jammed, optionally crewed combat vehicles (OCCV) - enhanced M113AS4s - move into a support by fire position, uncrewed, ready to fire on the enemy with its tele-operated weapon system.
"Trooper Damen Holmes, of 4/19 Prince of Wales's light Horse, was one soldier trained on OCCV operation.
"“They’re easy to operate, like driving vehicles on an Xbox,” he said.
"“A crew can operate these vehicles, but then you can flip a few switches and drive it remotely.”
"It was also the first time Army fired a remote weapon system from the remote-controlled vehicle.
"Demonstration combat team commander Captain Balazs Bauer said up to three of these vehicles could be remotely operated from a single control vehicle up to 5km away."
"Dozens of drones fly undetected above an enemy position feeding real-time surveillance back to the commander while he prepares a warning order.
"This commander has a tank troop and mechanised platoon, remote-controlled combat vehicles, autonomous robots and hundreds more drones.
"He deploys a second drone swarm jamming the enemy’s communications, giving them no chance of back-up for what’s coming next."
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"With the enemy comms jammed, optionally crewed combat vehicles (OCCV) - enhanced M113AS4s - move into a support by fire position, uncrewed, ready to fire on the enemy with its tele-operated weapon system.
"Trooper Damen Holmes, of 4/19 Prince of Wales's light Horse, was one soldier trained on OCCV operation.
"“They’re easy to operate, like driving vehicles on an Xbox,” he said.
"“A crew can operate these vehicles, but then you can flip a few switches and drive it remotely.”
"It was also the first time Army fired a remote weapon system from the remote-controlled vehicle.
"Demonstration combat team commander Captain Balazs Bauer said up to three of these vehicles could be remotely operated from a single control vehicle up to 5km away."
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Ukraine Develops Bambetel Ground Drone With Simultaneous Fiber-Optic and Radio Control - Militarnyi
Bambetel is equipped with a fiber-optic communications system supplied by Skelia Systems, with a backup radio control channel.
militarnyi.com
Robo tricycle with runflat tires and both FOG and RF controls. 20 km range and 20 kg payload.
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Robot bacteria
www.zmescience.com
Scientists just built programmable robots the size of bacteria that can operate alone for months
Scientists built autonomous robots smaller than a grain of salt, and they can think.
www.zmescience.com
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USROBOCOM?
Alongside
USSOCOM
USSTRATCOM
USTRANSCOM
USCYBERCOM
USSPACECOM
breakingdefense.com
Alongside
USSOCOM
USSTRATCOM
USTRANSCOM
USCYBERCOM
USSPACECOM
SASC's $1.14T defense policy bill creates combatant command for drones - Breaking Defense
SASC members voted the bill through committee in a 18-9 vote on Wednesday.
breakingdefense.com
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Wesley Clark
“The right question is not What can drones do? It is What can drones not do? And the answer to that question is both ancient and decisive: Drones cannot seize ground. They cannot hold it. They cannot compel a population to submit. They cannot plant a flag on a hilltop and mean it.”
www.eurasiantimes.com
He is wrong on three out of four counts. The one count he is right on is "They cannot compel a population to submit". That is the final defining role of the soldier.
He is also wrong about the machine gun. It didn't change the fundamentals of warfare, and neither do the drones. In that he is right. But it absolutely changed the nature of war, its scope and expanse, and led to the development of new technologies, like the tanks which are becoming UGVs and moved the conflict from muddy fields to city squares and classrooms.
“The right question is not What can drones do? It is What can drones not do? And the answer to that question is both ancient and decisive: Drones cannot seize ground. They cannot hold it. They cannot compel a population to submit. They cannot plant a flag on a hilltop and mean it.”
Ex-U.S. General Compares Drones to World War I Machine Guns, Says They Are Not the Future of Warfare
Ever since the beginning of the Ukraine war, drones have become an absolute necessity for military planners and strategists worldwide. According to former top Ukrainian general Valerii Zaluzhnyi, First-Person-View (FPV) drones were responsible for 80% of Russian battlefield casualties. Ukrainian...
www.eurasiantimes.com
He is wrong on three out of four counts. The one count he is right on is "They cannot compel a population to submit". That is the final defining role of the soldier.
He is also wrong about the machine gun. It didn't change the fundamentals of warfare, and neither do the drones. In that he is right. But it absolutely changed the nature of war, its scope and expanse, and led to the development of new technologies, like the tanks which are becoming UGVs and moved the conflict from muddy fields to city squares and classrooms.
