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Aerial Robotics Competition

Posted by michael on Friday July 23, 2004 @08:41AM from the buzz-bomb dept.

anphilip writes "The annual International Aerial Robotics Competition just wrapped up, and I thought while our teams waited for the results I'd let the folks at Slashdot know about it. At any rate there's a brief story here and the group website is here."

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Re:Army can't do it? by asynchronous13 · 2004-07-23 09:00 · Score: 2, Interesting

"What information does he have that says that the Army can't do this yet?"

Maybe the DARPA contract that hired Georgia Tech to design a UAV helicopter? Incidentally, this is the lab I work for. A choice quote from a high ranking army official at a recent demonstration of the GTMax was, "It is criminal for this thing to be sitting in the lab". He was impressed, and the Army wants one.

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Re:Army can't do it? by tuxlove · 2004-07-23 09:03 · Score: 2, Interesting

I'd hazard a guess that flying autonomous military robots like, oh, say, Tomahawk missiles, can pretty much do what these things do (except land, but of course you don't want them to :). And they've been around a long time.

But, in fact, the military is actively developing flying robots of other kinds as well. You certainly don't hear all about it, but the stuff you do hear is pretty damn amazing.