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https://www.defensenews.com/land/2021/05/06/us-army-looks-to-non-traditional-business-to-tackle-robotic-vehicle-sustainment/

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Transistors on the IBM "nanosheet" it uses for the new tech https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57009930

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw8kRZEvh_s

In a way, a cousin to DARPA's Upward Falling Payload.

https://www.space.com/ai-mars-robot-dogs-agu View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOlF9DXyJdw

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/publications/papers/ICRA05b.pdf

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20080015740.pdf Wasn't sure whether to put this here or over in Avionics and Military/Naval electronics.

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/06/upgradeable-birds-af-taps-hypergiant-for-reconfigurable-satellites/

Designed for fun The Pursuit Bot, with the look of one six-legged yellow spider and the size of a cat, designed to neutralize dangerous lifeforms operating in industrial environments. Mark-9 was built of electroactive polymers and carbon composites, its outer surface coated with graphene...

As a kid in the 60s I remember being fascinated by the guest vehicle in the second THUNDERBIRDS episode Pit of Peril The walking US army vehicle also appeared in annuals and TV21 comic and a porcelain replica appeared a few years back. Watching the video again it would make David A furious but...

https://spacenews.com/mars-sample-return-mission-plans-begin-to-take-shape/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/technology/neuralink-elon-musk.html

https://www.space.com/42511-hal-9000-inspired-ai-test-simulation.html Famous last words?

The full name was 'The All-State Automated System for the Gathering and Processing of Information for the Accounting, Planning and Governance of the National Economy, USSR' (OGAS being a Russian acronym for the first four words). It has been described as the 'Soviet Internet'. It might be more...

I looked for any previous posts on swarming quadcopters but I didn't find anything. Kind of odd that nobody has posted a video on those. Here is the Navy's rendition of swarming drones. At the 38 second mark the video shows a cluster of drones operating in close proximity. This is different...

http://asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Science/Tech/Japan-aims-to-launch-self-piloting-ships-by-2025 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40219682

NASA's Next Mars Rover Progresses Toward 2020 Launch http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1922 http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/?ImageID=7909

RM released this late last year. MGCS=Main ground combat system= the supposed Leo III MBT.

Since we don't seem to have a dedicated thread for this already: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/10/remember-eatr-the-military-robot-that-was-supposed-to-eat-humans/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/09/eatr_beta/

http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eastern-arsenal/are-weaponized-crab-walker-robots-future-chinese-land-wars ORIGINAL CAPTIONS FOR IMAGES BELOW: