me and the boys with our up-armored Google Glass* *IVAS, or Integrated Visual Augmentation System, based on Microsoft's Hololens, a tech pivot so wild it led to labor protests at Microsoft web.archive.org/web/2021021717…

Boston Dynamics gets the headlines but this is what combat robots look like

Bomberland, our new 1v1 AI competition is live ✨ Build intelligent agents to compete in a Bomberman-inspired environment. Join us here: gocoder.one/bomberland?s=t…

Join us tonight for the Yannic Kilcher 🇸🇨 paper discussion: `POET: Endlessly Generating Increasingly Complex and Diverse Learning Environments` September 25, 2021 18:00 to 20:00 UTC Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1901.01753 Code: github.com/uber-research/… Yannic's Discord: discord.gg/4H8xxDF

Can you hide on today’s battlefield? Finders & long range shooters might have the advantage. Should masking be a new principle of war? Can we introduce randomness to our decision making & actions? Future concepts need to answer this challenge! #ArmyMadSci madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil/358-pattern-de…

'Payne has produced an engaging and accessible guide to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) as applied to war.' - Lawrence Freedman with a generous review in Foreign Affairs this month. Thank you! foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsul…

This is so cool / crazy / scary, all at the same time!

The DARPA Subterranean Challenge, the teams, and our winning effort overviewed by the Washington Post: washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/… AutonomousRobotsLab Robotic Systems Lab Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich Oxford Dynamic Robot Systems @fly_ability The Washington Post - Thank you

Thank you, Senators Tom Cotton, Roger Wicker, Bill Hagerty, Marco Rubio, and Bill Cassidy, M.D., for your attention to this important issue and interest in our recent CSET report. cassidy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

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Just caught up with Shashank Joshi's excellent work on military sensing in The Economist - and almost missed my tube stop! Fascinating stuff 👀 economist.com/technology-qua…

“Let’s be real: Sentient machines that control thousand-pound bears with razor-sharp titanium claws are going to happen no matter what we do, so we might as well be the ones who do it,” theonion.com/tech-leaders-j…

AI is going to be the future of defense, and the most important weapons technology of the 21st century. So today I am proud to share what an amazing team has been working on - Building a new standard of AI in defense.

Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest — no pilots, just AI. theverge.com/2022/5/5/23058…

1/4 mini-THREAD🧵 Last night, Chinese CCTV 7 TV channel published a video of the Shijiazhuang Army Military Academy (陆军步兵学院石家庄校区) of the 🇨🇳PLA, where a joint exercise between the graduates and various types of unmanned combat equipment was organized...👇

China’s Kestrel Defense demonstrates a robo-dog that carries a loitering munitions launcher. Welcome to your next war tech... t.me/droneswar/3051

Boston Dynamics is pledging that their designs won’t be used for war. Meanwhile, China is perfectly copying their designs and… using them for war.

Reportedly video of Ukrainian Mavic drone vs Russian Mavic drone dogfight in the skies over Donbas t.me/censor_net/181…

My post on Open Robotics Robot Operating System (ROS) Discourse forum. "We need to talk about #ROSM, #RTK, #WMI, U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center, Weaponization & Boston Dynamics Open letter". Featuring commentary on Clearpath Robotics by Rockwell Automation, & the rest of ROS community openly turning a blind eye. discourse.ros.org/t/we-need-to-t…