I’m not sure if there’s a reserve force that specifically recruits volunteers with skills in robotics, but I notice there is one for techies interested in matters relating to cyber-warfare/cyber-defence: Joint Cyber Reserve Force (CRF). In the air, UK use of aerial drones is in accordance with the the 84 page Joint Doctrine Publication Unmanned aircraft systems (JDP 0-30.2) for a full list of joint doctrine publications see the Joint Doctrine Publication (JDP) collection. … In October, the Army awarded Endeavor $158.5 million for a class of more than 1,200 medium robots, called the Man-Transportable Robotic System, Increment II, weighing less than 165 pounds. This spring, Endeavor also landed two contracts worth $34 million from the Marine Corps for small and midsized robots. In April, the Army awarded a $429.1 million contract to two Massachusetts companies, Endeavor Robotics of Chelmsford and Waltham-based QinetiQ North America, for small bots weighing fewer than 25 pounds. For example, Bloomberg reported recently ( The U.S. Spend on military robots for deployment also seems to be increasing, in the US at least. Physical Environmental conditions (eg wind).Operator control requirements / autonomy levels (eg Automatic route planning, obstacle avoidance, tasking).In passing, the testing / performance criteria for competition entries provides a handy checklist of key considerations: I wonder if the exercise is building on early results from the autonomous last mile resupply that was launched by the Defence and Security Accelerator last year with the following timeline: The British Army is set to launch the four-week exercise on November 12, with a Battlegroup from 1 Armed Infantry brigade providing the exercising troops and taking responsibility of command and control. Apparently:Īutonomous Warrior will test a range of prototype unmanned aerial and ground cargo vehicles which aim to reduce the danger to troops during combat. Next up is Autonomous Warrior, the 2018 Army Warfighting Experiment. Eighteen months or so ago, it was Unmanned Warrior, a marine based large scale demonstration of unmanned and autonomous systems led by the Royal Navy (previously blogged as Drone War Exercises). So no video prize there…Īfter hanging around for the start of Depeche Mode – yawn, the sound was of its time and I wasn’t prepeared to wait an hour to be reminded of the songs I played on vinyl repeatedly over 30 years ago – I caught the always awful Bullybones (get p****d, make a racket in the way I think they imagined The Stooges used to) and then a band I caught the end of at Beautiful Days Festival last year – Noble Jacks:Īnother year, another robot heavy military exercise. But it rather reminded me a bit of a covers band who had no real ownership of the songs or how to get the original feeling out of them. The only reason I was there was for a bit of a singalong to Oasis songs, which was fun enough. At one point he apologised to folk griping he was playing Oasis songs. Then the rockin’ continued with Liam Gallagher on the main stage. A quick diversion on the Kashmir Cafe for another pint of Yachtsman’s Ale, where I caught the end of island bluesmiths Confred Fred teamed up with Jojo and the Woods powerful blues guitar and one hell of a voice from female vocalist Jojo (I presume…).
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