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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
With 260 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) drone attacks over the past four years, is the U.S. ready for autonomous or semi-autonomous robot weapon systems? Drones with the authority to use lethal force without supervision? Sounds scary but that’s exactly what ...
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Dabney B. on
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
Soldiers carry a lot of gear: weapons, ammo, Kevlar, water canteen, knee pads, goggles, gloves, survival knife, helmet, and other miscellaneous items. The Army wants to add a new item that list… air support. The Army seeks miniature, toy-sized drones ...
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Dabney B. on
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
There’s almost a poetic balance in the fact that Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, died around the same time that Curiosity touched down on Mars. The world’s most famous astronaut has passed away, but ...
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Dabney B. on
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
We like to call those pilot-less aircraft zipping around the skies nowadays "drones" but the original term for these gadgets were UAV, unmanned aerial vehicles. I bring that up because I want to emphasize the "unmanned" portion of UAVs. Calling ...
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Dabney B. on
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012
Having the world's strongest military is nice and all, but the one major downside to innovating new weapons and technology is that you open up the gate for everybody else to follow. The first innovator has to be the one ...
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