I'm actually not sure. They started as part of MIT, have received DARPA funding, and have been owned (and now sold) by google. Granted they're certainly aiming their research at military applications, but it seems that a lot of big players have lost interest in them over the years.
Just makes me wonder what the military has going behind closed doors if they lost interest in BD over a decade ago...
I'm actually not sure. They started as part of MIT, have received DARPA funding, and have been owned (and now sold) by google. Granted they're certainly aiming their research at military applications, but it seems that a lot of big players have lost interest in them over the years.
Just makes me wonder what the military has going behind closed doors if they lost interest in BD over a decade ago...
The lack of funerals would be a strong motivator to pursue autonomous ground units, but we already have drones in the air. The only motivation for this tech is to reduce wages and salaries expense, psychological healthcare costs, and most of all to remove conscientious objection from the equation.