Army official ties future of robotics revolution to open systems

By Sebastian Sprenger / October 30, 2015 at 7:27 PM
The key to success in the brave new world of military robotic ground systems lies in the Army's ability to enforce open standards in future technology developments, a service official has argued. The comment by Paul Rogers, head of the Army's Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center, comes at a critical juncture for military robotics applications. While the Army has used small robots on an ad-hoc basis to disable makeshift bombs during the Iraq war, the service now has...

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