Volocopter and Grab to study the feasibility of deploying air taxi services in Southeast Asia https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/volocopter-and-grab-to-study-the-feasibility-of-deploying-air-taxi-services-in-southeast-asia/
Category: Army
Innovating in Defence organisations
My article in Belgian Military Revue was pusblished recently.
You can read it here.
These “robo-shorts” could be a valuable add-on to the equipment of the light-infantry
With a 9 percent metabolic rate reduction for walking and 4,5 percent for running, this system can aleviate a bit of the burden for our dismounted soldiers.
Future Engineers?
Twitter A South Korean approach to mitigate their “lack” of military personnel
In order to mitigate the effects of their continuing decline in recruitment South Korea envisions to deploy BioBots by 2024
DAPA (Defence Acquisition Programme Administration ) plans to deploy robots inspired by humans and insects by 2024, after which it will look towards biobots that draw inspiration from birds, snakes, and various marine creatures.
Innovating alternative for cargo delivery
Is this the contact lens to augment troops’ visual capabilities in the field?
IMT Atlantique Drones for organ transport
MIT Technology Review New ways to avoid AI surveillance.
YouTube Could be usefull once integrated in to a (less flashy) camouflage pattern.
More info in this paper from KU Leuven : Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection
Tesla develops the hardware for self driving
YouTube Important takeaways:
– Tesla considers LIDAR as a bad technology for self driving
– Tesla cars and the required neural networks for self driving are becoming very good because they collect a lot of data and can retrain the networks for all kind of exceptions. This is for Defence a enormous problem because we operate in a non structured world where very little structural data acquisition is being done… so even with the best hardware, we probably won’t be able to have self driving vehicles that can operate cross country and in the unusual conditions we find in operations.
Adding more dexterity to (EOD) Robots
Fire Control Unit for 40mm underbarrel grenade launchers
Already chosen to become part of the Infanterist der Zukunft – Erweitertes System (IdZ-ES) for the German Army, this would greatly improve the “first shot hit rate” for our grenadiers.
Using HoloLens xR to improve soldier performance
A scope to increase the effectiveness of each rifleman
Defense Update: Small inflatable UAS
