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National Defense July 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Bug-Sized `Bots for the Urban Battle The Army Research Laboratory in April awarded a $37 million contract to BAE Systems to develop biologically based surveillance and reconnaissance robots to help soldiers conduct urban warfare.  |
National Defense July 2011 Eric Beidel |
Swarming Robot Teams to Map, Survey Buildings In the future, robots may be the true first responders.  |
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Dept. Forecasts Greater Use of Robots in Ground Combat Officials who oversee robot technology development at the Defense Department say it is just the beginning.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Lora G. Weiss |
Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain.  |
National Defense September 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Navigation System Advances Army's Pursuit of Unmanned Vehicles The Army will begin a series of tests in October that could demonstrate whether ground combat robots can find their way autonomously in the battlefield.  |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
iRobot Loses a Battle Shares fall following news that a major contract to supply lightweight tactical robots to the U.S. Army was awarded to a rival. Investors, take note.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 |
BAE Systems Uses MathWorks Tool to Design Antenna Stabilizer Soldiers in the U.S. Army's Future Combat System vehicles will use these antennas to get mobile and dependable communications from their Joint Tactical Radio System radios and Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), even as their Humvees travel over rough ground.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale |
Robots Are Fearless The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program will integrate unmanned ground vehicles into a future force. Autonomous ground vehicles promise to be a major paradigm shift in ground warfare.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 |
BAE Systems Delivers Energy Analysis, Diagnostic Systems to U.S. Army BAE Systems engineers developed the Headborne Energy Analysis and Diagnostic System (HEADS) to analyze explosive blasts that cause brain injuries.  |
National Defense December 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Army, Marine Corps In Pursuit of Robotic Convoy Systems As part of its modernization plan, the Army is funding several ground robotics programs ranging from small, remotely controlled explosive ordnance disposal units to large autonomous tactical wheeled vehicles.  |
National Defense July 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Robotic Mule Vendors Seek Opportunities Outside Military Lockheed Martin is eying border patrol, perimeter security, mining, logging and construction markets for its robotic mule, said Myron Mills, the company's squad mission support system program manager.  |
National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Soldiers Teaching Robots Battlefield Duties An Army Research Lab is working to instill robots with complex behaviors, thus making them suitable for the battlefield.  |
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson |
Army to Integrate Ground Robots Into Forces After years of using rapidly fielded, but temporary ground robots in its forces, the Army will soon roll out plans to make them a permanent part of its arsenal.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 |
BAE Systems Enters Market for Ground-Based Laser Warning Sensors The BAE Systems Sensor Integration segment in Austin, Texas, is jumping into the market for ground-based laser warning sensors to provide ground crews and vehicles with improved situational awareness and protection against laser-designated and laser-guided weapons.  |
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Ground Robots Coming of Age With Expanding Missions It's an exciting time for ground robots as they get more integrated into operations.  |
National Defense July 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Robots Unite to Defeat Electronic Jamming Scientists are working on technologies that will allow multiple robots to collaborate and form virtual antenna arrays to overcome dead zones and dropped connections and to amplify the systems' range while consuming less power.  |
National Defense June 2012 Eric Beidel |
New Products May Enhance Processing Power in Space The massive amount of data being collected on modern space missions is creating a need for higher performance computing on board satellites.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 |
BAE Systems Chosen to Upgrade Situational Awareness on Military Aircraft BAE Systems will modify more than 100 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve A-10A aircraft stationed around the United States before the end of this year.  |
National Defense September 2012 Eric Beidel |
Tiny Musician Robots Could Benefit Soldiers University of Pennsylvania researchers have been attracting attention for their work with nano-quadrotor robots.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 |
BAE Systems Delivers Prototype Multispectral Imaging Night-Vision Goggles to U.S. Army BAE Systems is delivering a prototype, helmet-mounted, night-vision goggle system to the Army that combines visible-light and infrared sensor technology.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 Susan Hassler |
9/11 and the Rise of Robots A technology spurred by tragedy takes hold  |
National Defense September 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Gun-Toting Ground Robots See Action in Iraqi Streets The U.S. Army quietly entered a new era earlier this summer when it sent the first armed ground robots into action in Iraq.  |
National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Proponents Hope 'Rodeo' Can Move Army Ground Robots Forward Representatives of some 50 companies, service research labs and universities gathered at Fort Benning, Georgia to show off the state of their art at the second annual Robotics Rodeo.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007 |
U.s. Army Adopts BAE Systems's Solutions for Advanced Bradley Training The Bradley Advanced Training System (BATS) offers more realism and incorporates a random target feature that better prepares the soldier for real-life fighting scenarios.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John McHale |
BAE Systems Unveils New Helmet-Mounted Display Technology Engineers at BAE Systems are using unconventional optics in the new Q-Sight helmet-mounted display technology to create a reduced-weight helmet for combat aircraft pilots.  |
Chemistry World July 9, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
3D printing allows soft robots to rise up Although they may not be taking over the world any time soon, a 3D printed soft robot mimicking the flexible body of an invertebrate has been manufactured by a group of scientists in the US.  |
Technology Research News September 12, 2005 |
Georgia Tech's Ronald Arkin The Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory talks about trends and issues surrounding the integration of robots into society.  |
National Defense October 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Reconnaissance Robots' Place on Battlefields Still Unsettled The fact that soldiers and Marines want small robots to perform reconnaissance and surveillance in battle zones -- particularly urban environments where they can be used to peer into buildings and around corners -- has been established.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Erico Guizzo |
Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds A Google researcher argues that cloud computing could make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter  |
National Defense January 2016 Sandra I. Erwin |
The Rise of the Machines? ... Not So Fast Robots working in tandem with troops are said to be the next big thing in defense technology.  |
National Defense October 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Army Deploying Robotic 'Mule' To Troops in Afghanistan The Army is deploying an unmanned ground vehicle to troops in Afghanistan for a several-month long evaluation in combat operations.  |
National Defense May 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Robots Are Major Players In U.S. Military Strategy The use of robots in warfare has long ceased to be a topic for science fiction and the technology has now become an essential component of the U.S. arsenal.  |
Fast Company John Paul Titlow |
We're Doomed: Robots Can Now Learn To Adapt To Injuries A new study published today in Nature explains how robots can use a sort of "evolutionary algorithm" to learn new ways of operating after being injured, according to the MIT Technology Review.  |
National Defense January 2014 Dan Parsons |
Budgets Permitting, Marines Could Be Fighting Alongside Robots by 2020s Within five years, Marines could head into battle alongside autonomous robotic trucks carrying water, ammunition and other gear.  |
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Opportunities for Non-Military Robots Increase In the last decade, the U.S. military poured money into unmanned ground systems to help protect troops against improvised explosive devices, but the Defense Department won't need all those robots once the war in Afghanistan comes to a close.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 |
BAE Systems to Provide Precise Threat ID to U.S. Army BAE Systems has received a U.S. Army contract for a new generation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems that will provide precise detection and identification of known and potential threats.  |
National Defense June 2015 Allyson Versprille |
Army Still Determining Best Use for Driverless Vehicles The Army's effort to introduce unmanned vehicles into its inventory has slowed as the service's budget tightens and questions remain on how the technology will be used.  |
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Evolution Trains Robot Teams Using evolution to teach robots complex behavior could eventually give them the ability to adapt to unfamiliar environments. There's a long way to go, but researchers are laying a foundation.  |
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Navy to Field a Family of Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy will field a family of bomb disposal robots to replace the ad hoc commercial systems being used in Iraq and Afghanistan today.  |
Popular Mechanics March 2008 Erik Sofge |
America's Robot Army: Are Unmanned Fighters Ready for Combat? The MULE (Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment) is one of many robots being developed for combat.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John McHale |
BAE Systems Funds Own Development of Unmanned Undersea Vehicles Engineers at BAE Systems are diving into the hot autonomous vehicle market with an undersea unmanned vehicle (UUV) they developed without an existing defense contract.  |
IndustryWeek February 2, 2012 Josh Cable |
Auto-Industry Demand Drives Record Year for Robot Sales But the industry saw gains in other sectors as well. Sales to non-automotive customers grew 27%, led by metalworking industries (up 56%) and semiconductor/electronics/photonics (up 24%), according to the Robotic Industries Association.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
iRobis Infuses Robots with Cognition The digital battlefield of the future could be closer than we anticipated, as scientists continue to make headway in the design and development of autonomous robots.  |