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Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

Creative Greenius

On this Veteran’s Day 2013 I honor my father-in-law, Bob Bushweit for his service starting at the age of 18 in World War II where he fought as a member of Patton’s Third Army across Africa and Europe and actually did preserve our freedom and our democracy as part of the greatest generation. .

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

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What’s more, the scale of the problem makes artificial intelligence a compelling part of the solution. 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.

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

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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning. ” "I should probably not be standing this close," I think to myself, as the robot slowly approaches a large tree branch on the floor in front of me. In structured environments like factories, this works well enough. RoMan is one part of that process.

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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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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each new multigrasping bionic hand tends to be more sophisticated but also more expensive than the last and less likely to be covered (even in part) by insurance. We’ve been promised a breakthrough in prosthetic technology for the better part of 100 years now.

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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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