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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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. They didn’t remain mysterious for long. And everything changed.

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APRIL 25, 2024

How We Got Started With Drones for Demining I became interested in land-mine detection while studying geological science as an undergraduate at Binghamton University , New York. Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War. demonstration previously described.

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APRIL 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). The blistering late-afternoon wind ripped across Camp Taji , a sprawling U.S. military base just north of Baghdad.

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AUGUST 21, 2022

soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly every university robotics department Spiers visits has an anthropomorphic robot hand in development. This recent investment is not, however, a result of a disproportionately large number of amputations in military conflict: Around 1,500 U.S.

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