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Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

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While we honor today the service, sacrifice and loss of all our military members, there was no threat to our homeland, our freedom or our democracy from the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the Iraqis, or the Afghanistan people. Little Stevie Van Zandt wrote the lyrics to the song I consider MY national anthem.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War. Our resulting model correctly detected 92 percent of PFM-1s in these environments, on average. demonstration previously described.

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MIT team finds lead levels higher in Indian Ocean than northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans

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Today, 185 countries have stopped using leaded gasoline; six others, including Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea, plan to phase it out in the next two years. But while leaded gasoline usage has decreased drastically in the last few decades, lead is still pervasive in the environment.

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How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players

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In structured environments like factories, this works well enough. RoMan, along with many other robots including home vacuums , drones, and autonomous cars, handles the challenges of semistructured environments through artificial neural networks—a computing approach that loosely mimics the structure of neurons in biological brains.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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As director of technology integration at Lockheed Martin , in Grand Prairie, Texas, he leads a team that is actively pursuing breakthroughs designed to, among other things, allow life-saving missions to be performed in hazardous environments without putting humans at risk.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both unilateral and bilateral amputees also get help from their torsos, their feet, and other objects in their environment; rarely are tasks performed by a prosthesis alone. Limb loss in the general population dwarfs those figures.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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A Navy unit used a remote-controlled vehicle with a mounted video camera in 2009 to investigate suspicious areas in southern Afghanistan. I can’t blame you for giving your guy a proper burial, he helped keep a lot of people safe and did a job that most people wouldn’t want to do.” Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick W.

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