Army Maneuver Center looking to 'swarm' ground robots

By Ashley Tressel / June 29, 2018 at 3:42 PM
The Army's Maneuver Center of Excellence in Ft. Benning, GA, has hosted a number of companies that are developing algorithms for robot "swarming," or controlling many at once, according to a service official. Don Sando, head of MCoE's Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate, told reporters June 27 that technology will be the next "large return on investment" for Army robotics, which the center "will continue to develop and test" through fiscal year 2020. Sando said swarming holds great promise for...

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