Asger Risom
The same smart technology that mows lawns in peaceful neighborhoods is now saving lives on the battlefield by taking over the most dangerous military tasks.
People all over the world love letting modern smart robots handle the heavy work in their homes and green gardens.
Technology is rapidly moving into our everyday lives where automated machines happily take over the boring and exhausting daily chores.
While small rolling helpers create great joy in peaceful neighborhoods everywhere, similar autonomous technology is now being used for far more serious purposes out in the big world.
Ambitious new goals
The ongoing conflict in Eastern Europe forces nations to think in new ways to protect human lives on the unpredictable battlefield. According to the American media TWZ the government in Kyiv has set a massive goal of producing fifty thousand land based robots currently.
The small remote controlled vehicles transport everything from daily supplies to heavy building materials right out to the foremost lines. The purpose is simply to spare the deployed troops from the absolutely most risky supply runs in open and highly dangerous terrain.
Development is moving incredibly fast right now in the war torn country where innovation happens daily. The vast majority of the high tech equipment is manufactured completely locally by hundreds of different private companies working under immense pressure to deliver the goods.
Right now there are over five hundred unique models rolling around. The vital tasks range incredibly widely from very small logistical errands to massive freight of heavy ammunition across the terrain.
Requires smart software
The machines are also available in special variants for completely different life saving tasks across the dangerous zones. Some of the more advanced models actively fetch wounded soldiers away from the front while other types are equipped with powerful weapons to fight hostile flying drones up in the sky.
The CEO of the Ukrainian technology unit Brave1 Andrii Hrytseniuk states to the media TWZ, “Everything that is possible to be done by drones has to be done by drones for transportation”.
To make the rolling ground vehicles maximally effective the engineers use advanced software to an incredible extent to recognize and track the moving targets. The CEO explains further to TWZ, “All combat turrets that we are using have elements of artificial intelligence”.
It is absolutely crucial for overall success that the machines can quickly assess the chaotic situation on their own. There is rarely time for manual human intervention when the pressure is at its absolute highest out in the muddy fields.
Source: TWZ (The War Zone)
