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Evolving the Wireless Robot
An anonymous reader writes "This article is one of the first to discuss wireless robotics from an integrated approach. It explains the ins and outs of wireless robots: their components, their shortcomings, and how they can interact in a competitive or cooperative team within professional environments. Learn how smarter robots can relieve us of the most tedious -- and dangerous -- tasks."
I had to work some about A.I. last year and I went across this site here Most might be in French though. I know there are several universities in France that do such research, and in North America too. I'll admit I'm quite curious about how it will evolve in the next years.
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Sure the first generation cruise missiles and guided missiles were dumb, pointed in a direction or steered by a wire
Um...one of the first cruise missles(the AGM-86) used radar-based terrain profile matching. It was neither "dumb", "pointed in a direction" or "steered by a wire". Think that last one through-how the hell do you guide a cruise missile(speeds 500+ mph, range, 1000's of miles) by WIRE?(answer: you don't. Some TORPEDOES have wire-guidance.) The system was incredibly accurate, and capable of flying VERY low and VERY fast, making the missile virtually impossible to stop.
The standard cruise missile was later upgraded to include inertial navigation and self-correcting features(missle could correct its flightpath mid-flight based on available data), and then GPS was added very recently. For the last 10 years or so, it's been the Tomahawk we all know and love, great for reining shit down on your enemy from thousands of miles away, even from underwater. Nah, that's not cowardly at all :-)
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Actually the first generation of cruise missiles were the Nazi V-1 and it's American, British and Soviet offshoots which were quite dumb.
Then we had things like Snark, Navaho and Regulus which had star trackers and spark-plug guidence systems but which were also dumb.
The AGM-86 series of GLCM. SLCM and ALCM were smarter, but they are not autonomous but they do have some logic built in when you get to the BGM 109 Tomahawk TASM.
The Tomahawk is about the third or fourth generation of cruise missile the US has produced.
The first Nazi anti-ship missiles were wire guided as are the TOW series of American missiles, the Sagger Russian missiles and the HOT European weapons.