The US Air Force and Navy are buying and testing new superdrones that can act as wingmen with existing bombers and fighters. They will have a competition to select the winning superdrones late this year. However, there will be multiple contracts and constantly upgrading superdrones over the next few years and beyond. The superdrones will …
Agility Robotics is making a 70,000 square foot factory to mass produce 10,000 humanoid Digit robots per year. The factory is about half the size of a Costco. They will use the humanoid robots in their own warehouses and factories. They are focused on warehouse and delivery robots. They have switched to large language model …
The US Air force fiscal 2024 budget includes nearly $50 million to start a program called Project Venom — or Viper Experimentation and Next-gen Operations Model — to help it experiment with and refine autonomous software loaded onto six F-16s. The Air Force wants to develop a fleet of at least 1,000 collaborative combat aircraft, …
The US military announced the Replicator initiative as the latest effort to overcome the production valley of death to speed up and make thousands of all-domain attritable autonomous systems. This will organize dozens of small programs into a focused small drone and combat AI effort. Currently, small kamikaze drones with 10-40 kilometer range (like the …
Jamming systems can neutralize drones by causing them to crash, land, or return to the operator. They work by blasting electromagnetic noise at the radio frequencies that drones use to operate and emit information. This drowns out the conversation between a drone and its operator. The UK estimates that Ukraine is losing 10,000 drones each …
I, Brian Wang, discussed my ideas about Tesla Robotaxi, Robotrucks, RoboFactories and RoboEverything with Randy Kirk. Tesla will succeed with Full Self Driving and Teslabots. It may still be two or three more years until the full robotaxi level is reached. It could even be five years but the progress is will speed up this …
Tesla will succeed with Full Self Driving and Teslabots. It may still be two or three more years until the full robotaxi level is reached. It could even be five years but the progress is and will speed up this year and beyond. Robotaxi could require the system being 10 to 100 times safer than …
Tesla FSD and Autopilot used to require complete retraining when the cameras were moved on Tesla vehicles. Tesla AI lead, Ashok Elluswamy, has now said that Tesla can now even use video of driving from Youtube. This means the cameras can be moved and Tesla can still use the driving video for its General AI. …
Robotaxis on public streets are causing dozens of problems each month for firetrucks, ambulances and police cars and city traffic. California state agencies have set up the rules where city leaders cannot block autonomous vehicle regulation. San Francisco and Los Angeles are fighting the expansion of robotaxi operations. Thee Los Angeles Department of Transportation and …
In 2022, Ukraine flew Turkish made Bayraktar TB2 drones near Russia Black Sea flagship the Moskva. The drones had been effective against Russian armored vehicles and artillery. They distracted radar operators and then the Moskva was hit and sunk by Neptune missiles. The review of images following the strike of the two Neptune anti-ship missiles …
Ilya Sutskever makes the case that humanoid robots that embody advanced generative AI need to have hundreds of thousands of units in order to get the AI training data and rapid improvements. This clearly means that Ilya Sutskever, Chief Scientist at Open AI, home of Chat GPT and Dall-e, in an interview with Dwarkesh Patel, …