The Air Force Doesn’t Know How to Test Its Future Robotic Wingmen
The U.S. military is trying to figure out how best to test unmanned combat vehicles like the Navy's X-47B.
By Patrick Tucker Read bio
October 20, 2016
How do you surprise a drone that can revise its strategy hundreds of times in an eyeblink?
U.S. military leaders are spending billions of dollars to develop the robotic autonomy they say will drive technological dominance in the next decade or two. Here’s a question for the next five years: how do you test artificially intelligent weapons in a way that is both safe and yet credibly represents a battle environment?
Maj. Gen. Robert McMurry Jr., who leads the Air Force Research Lab, or AFRL, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, is accustomed to testing dangerous and futuristic weapons, such as lasers.
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