DARPA DEPLOYS SWARMS OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS TO CARRY OUT URBAN RAID
A swarm of autonomous robots has been deployed by researchers from DARPA to test how the technology could be used as part of an urban raid. The experiment was part of a project to find ways to map environments and gather real-time intelligence using aerial and land based robots.
In the not-so-distant future, hundreds of unmanned drones and on-the-ground rovers could swoop into an area of interest and spew crucial data to human military operators faced with limited sight lines or tasked with navigating unpredictable spaces, researchers the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said this week.
Military experts say the aim is to transmit "critical insights to small ground units" from swarms of up to 250 collaborating autonomous robots.
A third field experiment was recently conducted at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center based in Mississippi, spearheaded by DARPA.
The program, led by Timothy Chung, is known as Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET).
In the most-recent test, rovers and drones were sent out into the training facility with the objective of locating items and areas of interest, marked in this instance by a form of barcode.
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