{"id":23215,"date":"2016-03-07T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/marines-adapting-live-fire-training-using-robots"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:55:58","slug":"marines-adapting-live-fire-training-using-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/marines-adapting-live-fire-training-using-robots","title":{"rendered":"Marines Adapting Live-Fire Training Using Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/embed\/451396\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At Camp Pendleton, Marines<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2016\/mar\/07\/camp-pendleton-marines-test-robots-training\/\" target=\"_blank\"> are testing<\/a> a new, cutting edge form of live-fire training using robotic targets.<\/p>\n<p>Stationary and on-rails targets are all well and good, but enemy combatants haven\u2019t behaved like that since the formal battle lines of the Revolutionary War. It\u2019s long past time for a training program that provides a more accurate simulation of today\u2019s combat situations, and the Marines of Camp Pendleton are taking steps toward just that.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/190240\/enhanced-training-through-target-technology#.VtnkvClX9JM\" target=\"_blank\">Autonomous Robotic Human Type Targets<\/a>\u201d sport wigs and zip around at up to 8 miles per hour on two wheels. Rather than simply popping up and down or riding along a prescribed track, these targets attempt to be as unpredictable and erratic as their real-life counterparts. They\u2019ll change speeds, swerve, and respond to one another when hit. The robots will even advance on Marines in an aggressive response.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2016\/03\/07\/marines-adapting-live-fire-training-using-robots\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2016\/03\/07\/marines-adapting-li...ng-robots\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Camp Pendleton, Marines are testing a new, cutting edge form of live-fire training using robotic targets. Stationary and on-rails targets are all well and good, but enemy combatants haven\u2019t behaved like that since the formal battle lines of the Revolutionary War. It\u2019s long past time for a training program that provides a more accurate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43273,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215\/revisions\/43273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}