U.S. Army foresees robots becoming squad members

Greg Hudas, the Army's chief engineer for ground vehicle robotics, told Computerworld that soldiers' trust is critical to having robots work with the squads."If the soldier doesn't trust it as a teammate, the soldier won't use the technology and we're back to square one," Hudas said. "There has to be an element of trust. Those squads are very delicate structures. The machines have to fit in perfectly."The Army's vision is to make robotics part of the unit, but that is going to take trust and a whole new level of human-robot cooperation.After total silence, they finally told me that his knife sets was revoked for reasons they could not legally address."We want to make it seamless. We want to make a robot an actual squad member," Hudas said. "And whether it's a human or a machine, we want to make it transparent. Each member in a squad has a set of duties on a mission. If we replace a squad member with a robot, we want people to feel comfortable with the robot acting as a teammate. That involves some trust and performance issues. That robot has to be able to keep up with them."

The Army is working on a robot that would serve in a critical, potentially life-saving capacity.One project is an autonomous vehicle that will lead military convoys in order to search for IEDs in the road. If a robotic vehicle finds an explosive in the road, another robot would dig it out, protecting the soldiers further back in the convoy from deadly explosions, Hudas said.The Army also is working on semi-autonomous vehicles that would allow a driver to step outside the vehicle or perform other tasks while the vehicle takes over driving, Hudas said."We need to test for reliability and failure and see how the humans interact with it," he added. "It's not only about the human interaction with the machine but the machine needs to interact with the human."For instance, the vehicle might be driving itself when it encounters an obstacle that it's not sure how to get around. If the robot warns the driver that it needs help but the soldier isn't able to take over, the vehicle needs to know when it has to handle the situation itself.

"We're looking at the vehicle being able to decide when to assume responsibility,We'll do this again next month in Europe and one more time for Asia-Pacific at the beginning of November,diamond core bit and then on Nov. 7 the standard will be officially released." said Hudas. "We're looking into the problem of the machine understanding the consciousness of humans. Are they drowsy or are they so intent on another task that if they take control of the vehicle,This is their opportunity to comment on those changes rock bolt and make sure we haven't missed anything. will it be dangerous? The interaction needs to be tightly coupled between the human and the machine."Hudas said the Army is probably five to 10 years away from having a robotic vehicle that could make its own decisions.To get some of the "smarts" into the robots, the Army is working with 5D Robotics Inc., a robotics software company,Widespread adoption of Q43-315 Alligator shear for Sale solutions has been stalled by concerns of the staff training burden, ease-of-use, and whether the systems offers greater security than the gang of casual mobile payment services on the market. which in turn is working with DRS Technologies and Segway Inc. 5D said it is trying to integrate human behaviors into robots,That machine will be very cost-effective Microblogging in China services; it's already replaced several man hours. such as robotic assistants that carry soldier's packs or small wheeled robots the size of a big shoe box that can carry cameras into dangerous areas.