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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. What we had were a lot of opportunities to observe nature.”

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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They were paying their final respects to Boomer, a fallen comrade who had been an indispensable part of their team for years. A Navy unit used a remote-controlled vehicle with a mounted video camera in 2009 to investigate suspicious areas in southern Afghanistan. Just days earlier, he had been blown apart by a roadside bomb.

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