Bots & Bullets

The market for autonomous navigation was valued at US$ 427.8 million in 2019 and is projected to reach US$ 796.0 million by 2027, a growth of 10.1% CAGR. This is in a large part due to investment in military research by governments, according to a report by ResearchAndMarkets.

Davantage de surveillance par drones, d’applications de terrain et de processus automatisés rythment les interventions de la Gendarmerie nationale, utilisatrice et contributrice d’outils libres.

After three years of development, DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge teams will get the chance to compete in the Final Event being held at the Louisville Mega Cavern in Louisville, Kentucky on September 21-23, 2021.

During a training flight, the US military experimented with AI takeover of systems in a jet fighter. According to a report in the Washington Post, AI took over both the navigation and sensors of a U2 spy plane during this flight.

Attempts at airborne retrieval of three unmanned air vehicles, nicknamed Gremlins, were just inches from success in DARPA’s latest flight test series that started on October 28. Each X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV) flew for more than two hours, successfully validating all autonomous formation flying positions and safety features.

The technology behind Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is uniquely suited to giving test automation a much needed boost. A round RPA-built test environment is more robust, more flexible, but also more useful when applications eventually go into production.

Next week (December 15 to 17 inclusive), Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market leader UiPath is hosting the  ‘Reboot Work Festival’. The virtual event’s aim: highlight the ways companies are using automation to reinvent the way they work and free their employees to realise their potential, and it includes some fascinating-looking automation use case studies live on-stage on Day 3, Customer Day.

The Guardian XO industrial exoskeleton, a full-body, battery-powered wearable industrial robot designed to increase strength and endurance, has been chosen by TIME as one of the 100 Best Inventions of 2020. The Guardian XO exoskeleton was selected in the Productivity category. An earlier hydraulically-powered prototype version of the Guardian XO exoskeleton, the XOS 2, was also named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2010 list.

U.S. military explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams will use the FLIR Centaur ground robot to help disarm improvised explosive devices, unexploded ordnance, and to perform similar hazardous tasks. Operators can quickly attach different sensors and payloads to the robot to address other missions, including chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats

A new machine learning algorithm, developed with Army funding, can isolate patterns in brain signals that relate to a specific behavior and then decode it, potentially providing Soldiers with behavioral-based feedback.