{"id":130010,"date":"2021-11-04T11:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/bigger-drones-better-ai-u-s-air-force-installs-its-skyborg-robot-brain-in-a-pair-of-stealth-drones"},"modified":"2021-11-04T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:23:40","slug":"bigger-drones-better-ai-u-s-air-force-installs-its-skyborg-robot-brain-in-a-pair-of-stealth-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/bigger-drones-better-ai-u-s-air-force-installs-its-skyborg-robot-brain-in-a-pair-of-stealth-drones","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Drones, Better AI: U.S. Air Force Installs Its Skyborg Robot Brain In A Pair Of Stealth Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bigger-drones-better-ai-u-s-air-force-installs-its-skyborg-robot-brain-in-a-pair-of-stealth-drones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Air Force\u2019s Skyborg team flew two General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger stealth drones on the \u201cmulti-hour\u201d Oct. 26 flight over California. One of the Ave\u2026 See more.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Two stealth drones soared over Edwards Air Force Base in California last week, offering some encouraging evidence that the U.S. Air Force\u2019s new drone \u201cbrain\u201d not only works\u2014it works with <a aria-label=\"a bunch of different drone types\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2020\/06\/06\/the-us-air-forces-next-killer-drone-could-fly-and-fight-all-by-itself\/?sh=523718d55e18\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2020\/06\/06\/the-us-air-forces-next-killer-drone-could-fly-and-fight-all-by-itself\/?sh=523718d55e18\">a bunch of different drone types<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force hopes to install the Skyborg autonomy core system in a wide array of unmanned aerial vehicles. The idea is for the ACS to steer armed drones with minimal human control\u2014even in the heat of battle. That way the drones can fly as robotic wingmen for manned fighters without demanding too much of the busy human pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force\u2019s Skyborg team flew two General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger stealth drones on the \u201cmulti-hour\u201d Oct. 26 flight over California. One of the Ave\u2026 See more. Two stealth drones soared over Edwards Air Force Base in California last week, offering some encouraging evidence that the U.S. Air Force\u2019s new drone \u201cbrain\u201d not only works\u2014it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}