JUST IN: Army Envisions Legions of Autonomous Logistics Robots to Deliver Supplies
2/27/2024
By Stew Magnuson
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Army Futures Command’s relatively new Contested Logistics Cross-Functional Team now has a rough technology roadmap to follow and one of its goals is to deploy autonomous robots in the air, land and sea to deliver supplies in war zones.
Rob Watts, the team’s deputy director, said the concept includes autonomous aircraft, trucks and boats that would distribute everything from water, fuel and ammo and hand them off to each other without soldiers needing to intervene.
A small autonomous boat might land on a beach where the supplies are then loaded onto a ground robot, he said at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/2/27/army-envisions-legions-of-autonomous-logistics-robots-to-deliver-supplies
