{"id":130011,"date":"2021-11-04T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/australian-army-getting-bulletproof-swarming-attack-robots"},"modified":"2021-11-04T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:23:50","slug":"australian-army-getting-bulletproof-swarming-attack-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/australian-army-getting-bulletproof-swarming-attack-robots","title":{"rendered":"Australian Army Getting Bulletproof Swarming Attack Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-army-getting-bulletproof-swarming-attack-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wheeled Jaeger-C is a small machine with a low profile designed to attack from ambush. In some ways, it might be seen as a mobile robotic mine. This is especially true because the makers note it can be remote-controlled or \u201cautonomously with image analysis and trained models linked to robotic actions,\u201d according to a report in <a aria-label=\"Overt Defense\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.overtdefense.com\/2020\/09\/18\/new-australian-jaeger-c-armed-ugv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.overtdefense.com\/2020\/09\/18\/new-australian-jaeger-c-armed-ugv\/\">Overt Defense<\/a>. This sounds very much like the sort of deep learning increasingly used for other automatic target recognition, a trend driven by the ready availability of new, <a aria-label=\"low-cost hardware\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidhambling\/2021\/08\/19\/new-qualcomm-release-to-drive-next-gen-smart-drones\/?sh=3bcbacd33f97\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidhambling\/2021\/08\/19\/new-qualcomm-release-to-drive-next-gen-smart-drones\/?sh=3bcbacd33f97\">low-cost hardware<\/a> for small uncrewed systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaeger-C will sit in ambush in Gaard mode \u2013 a long-term silent watch mode \u2013 until it detects potential targets. It will then switch into either Chariot mode or Goliath mode depending on whether the targets are personnel or vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wheeled Jaeger-C is a small machine with a low profile designed to attack from ambush. In some ways, it might be seen as a mobile robotic mine. This is especially true because the makers note it can be remote-controlled or \u201cautonomously with image analysis and trained models linked to robotic actions,\u201d according to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130011","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=130011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}