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

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How We Got Started With Drones for Demining I became interested in land-mine detection while studying geological science as an undergraduate at Binghamton University , New York. Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War. demonstration previously described.

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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. They didn’t remain mysterious for long. And everything changed.

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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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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly every university robotics department Spiers visits has an anthropomorphic robot hand in development. This recent investment is not, however, a result of a disproportionately large number of amputations in military conflict: Around 1,500 U.S.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). The blistering late-afternoon wind ripped across Camp Taji , a sprawling U.S. military base just north of Baghdad.

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