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.
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.
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 DoD has had a major boner for autonomous systems for years. Can you imagine how eager politicians will be to go to war when there are no pesky funerals for soldiers causing bad PR?