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发帖数: 925 | 1 Technology is swiftly making the concept of hand-to-hand combat an
anachronism. For example, as late as the year 2000, the U.S. military had
fewer than 50 unmanned aerial vehicles. A decade later, it had more than
7000 in its arsenal. And in 2009, the U.S. Air Force for the first time
trained more pilots to operate unmanned drones than to ride in the cockpits
of fighters and bombers. The United States is not alone in wanting to remove
soldiers from tasks considered to be dull, dirty, or dangerous. More than
60 countries have either fielded military robots or are planning to. But
before battle theaters become the exclusive province of mechanized warriors,
further advances must be made in automatons’ performance and safety. They
must boast better sensors, better networking capability, the ability to
interpret data and coordinate tasks among multiple systems, and the ability
to learn from their experiences. Until then, military robots will not be
capable of being fully autonomous. But researchers are at work ironing out
the technological wrinkles that remain. |
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