Posted on 11/18/2019 5:07:30 PM PST by Mariner
(Washington, D.C.) Armed Army robot vehicles conducted reconnaissance, called for indirect fire and then, when directed by human decision-makers, attacked and destroyed enemy targets in a recent experiment designed to assess the technical maturity and readiness of autonomous ground drones.
“We had four robot vehicles conduct a tactical mission while humans were safe in defilade. We built four robots that are refurbished M113 tracked vehicles and we’ve taken two Bradleys -- gutted them -- and turned them into two control vehicles with all kinds of sensors on them,” Jeff Langhout, Director, Ground Vehicle Systems Center, told reporters in October at the Association of the United States Army Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C.
Langhout explained that the robots engaged in “direct fire” missions when directed by human decision-makers, per existing doctrine requiring a human to be “in the loop” when it comes to using lethal force for attack.
It’s the cutting edge of manned-unmanned teaming, human-machine interface coordinating human decision-makers with robots increasingly able to perform autonomous functions. The Army doctrinal parameters are significant here, because the technological ability of a robot to surveil, track, target and destroy a target without human intervention -- is basically here. However, for ethical and tactical reasons, DoD maintains its clear position that humans must make decisions regarding the use of lethal force, despite advances in algorithms enabling greater autonomy. The doctrinal stance is also grounded in a recognition that even the most advanced computer algorithms are not sufficient to replace the problem-solving, decision-making abilities of human cognition. There is concern, however, that potential adversaries will not adhere to similar doctrine.
These questions figure prominently as the Army leverages the best available technology and makes rapid progress toward its ultimate goal of fielding a fleet of unmanned vehicles operating as “wing-men” for manned attack vehicles.
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It’s just
Between us FReepers,
Don’t tell anyone.
It was a fake. There is a video out on YouTube showing just how it was created to look as realistic as it was.
No.
And I certainly hope the US Army does not buy into that thought.
There is always something beyond and if you lose sight of that you are finished.
Not really worried. Most military people are realists.
Let us hope the Chinese have not already stolen the code.
Make the commies spend a zillion dollars trying to steal the blue prints.
We have to dominate this field of military tech until the next big thing comes along.
Then we have to dominate that.
But will they have trannies remotely operating them?
The idea, sometimes, is to skip a generation, and have your adversary spend much on developing obsolete weaponry.
STAR TREK,
As I remember,
That was one of
The more Frightening
Episodes!
All of this tech is available off the shelf. You can even buy an APC for your project.
Thanks! I should have known. It wasn’t that long ago that I was amazed watching the dog-like robots running along a grassy hill, but still awkward on stairs.
This is still at a very primitive stage. Whoever gets to the endpoint first, wins.
re: “There are serious EM issues that can throw a monkey wrench into this. “
Do you know what a HARM missile is for?
Other issues we can’t talk about.
I sure do and there are a whole lot of new Cyber threats that they are useless against.
>>STAR TREK,
As I remember,
That was one of
The more Frightening
Episodes!<<
As a kid it scared the heck out of me, especially when Decker went into the thing.
This one is https://youtu.be/_sBBaNYex3E check out some of the others from Boston Dynamics, it will scare you.
Sorry, meant to say this one is Real https://youtu.be/_sBBaNYex3E
"Wooden Ships" lyrics by Paul Kantner and Stephen Stills, 1968.
MECH WARRIOR...
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