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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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After several years of research on this topic during my undergraduate education, in 2020 I cofounded the company now known as Safe Pro AI to push the technology forward and make deployment a reality. Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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As director of technology integration at Lockheed Martin , in Grand Prairie, Texas, he leads a team that is actively pursuing breakthroughs designed to, among other things, allow life-saving missions to be performed in hazardous environments without putting humans at risk.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. The attachment from prosthetic-device company Texas Assistive Devices rated for very heavy weights, allowing the author to perform exercises that would be risky or impossible with her much more expensive iLimb bionic arm.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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Boomer was a Multi-function Agile Remote-Controlled robot, or MARCbot , manufactured by a Silicon Valley company called Exponent. A Navy unit used a remote-controlled vehicle with a mounted video camera in 2009 to investigate suspicious areas in southern Afghanistan. Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick W. Mullen III/U.S.

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