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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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Marine Corps used the autonomous K-Max helicopters for resupply missions in Afghanistan. While attending the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, he interned at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., She ended up getting accepted to the University of Waterloo and became part of the UW tutor team I was leading.”

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Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

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Before starting today’s episode hosted by Eliza Strickland , I wanted to give you all listening out there some news about this show. Steinberg: So it started in 2016 with my partner, Jasper Baur, doing a research project at Binghamton University in the remote sensing and geophysics lab. It was previously found in Afghanistan.

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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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