Army Seeks AI, Robotics For Grunts

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 Army Seeks AI, Robotics For Grunts

Innovators! You have until Aug. 23 to submit white papers on how to make the future infantry squad “10 times more effective.”
By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on August 06, 2019 at 3:38 PM

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A soldier holds a PD-100 mini-drone during the PACMAN-I experiment in Hawaii.

WASHINGTON: Want Army funding to test your robot or artificial intelligence algorithm? You’ve got less than three weeks to convince the Maneuver Center at Fort Benning, Ga. that your idea can save lives and help win fights on the battlefield of the future. It’s the latest example of the Army seeking high-tech help with everything from better rifles to VR training to targeting goggles for what’s traditionally been the lowest-tech and highest-casualty branch of the armed forces, the infantry.

The service has big ambitions. It wants both “robotic technologies that will equip a dismounted Infantry platoon, making it 10 times more effective than the current dismounted Infantry platoon” and “AI tools that can take large amounts of information from different sources” — including new scout robots — to help troops “make better decisions 10 times faster.”

https://breakingdefense.com/2019/08/army-seeks-ai-robotics-for-grunts/