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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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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. Work In recent years, much of the hype has centered around that second stage: semiautonomous and supervised autonomous systems that DOD officials refer to as “human-machine teaming.” Mullen III/U.S.

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