Robotics news

The head of Tesla, Elon Musk, presented a prototype of a humanoid robot Optimus worth 20 thousand dollars. This is reported by Reuters.

The US Navy is focused on improving its unmanned vehicles capable of working underwater and solving a wide range of tasks. So, the Navy declares the need for at least five large robotic underwater vehicles that could perform numerous functions underwater.

It is obvious that in the near future, human drivers will be replaced by autonomous control systems equipped with artificial intelligence. A good example is the AXL unmanned dump truck from the Swedish company Scania.

On September 25, the NATO Dynamic Messenger-22 naval exercises began. This is the first full-fledged operational exercises of the North Atlantic Alliance, the main purpose of which is to monitor the operation of unmanned systems in the marine environment. The exercises involve 18 ships, 48 unmanned vehicles and 1,500 military personnel from 16 countries of the North Atlantic Alliance. The maneuvers will take place at the training grounds of Portugal, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

On September 21, two marine drones of a previously unknown design were found in the Sevastopol area (one was blown up, the other was thrown ashore), which puzzled Western observers who are trying to understand the mission of the device, which turned out to be near the base of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy.

According to Turkish sources, in the last decade, the development of ground-based RTCs has significantly benefited from new technologies. Although they are currently primarily remotely operated vehicles, it is expected that in the near future ground-based RTCs will begin to carry out missions independently.

Back in the spring, NPO Avtomatiki, part of the structure of Roscosmos, delivered the first 30 sets of autopilots, which were equipped with self-propelled sprayers of one of the Russian manufacturers of agricultural machinery.

TSAST announced a reward of 1 million rubles for the capture of the Estonian combat robot THeMIS in Ukraine

The Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies has announced that it will pay one million rubles to anyone who can capture the Estonian robotic platform THeMIS in Ukraine and transfer it to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The TSAST clarified that the first copy of the platform was transferred to Kiev in August of this year.

According to Ukrainian resources, the armed forces of Ukraine should receive the well-known tracked unmanned ground platforms (robotic complexes) THeMIS developed and manufactured by the Estonian company Milrem Robotics. The first copy of such a platform was already delivered to Ukraine in August 2022.

And what tasks will its unmanned underwater vehicles perform

On September 1, the opinion of a military expert, former US Army officer Brent Eastwood, about the capabilities of the Russian Navy was published in the American media. According to him, the Russian Federation has powerful underwater forces. And the newest nuclear submarine, which joined the fleet in July, the BS—329 Belgorod special purpose submarine of project 09852, poses a special threat to America. About what role the unique Belgorod plays in the development of domestic submarine forces, read in the Izvestia material.

The US Navy announced the release by Iran of two American unmanned surface ships that were captured by an Iranian warship in the Red Sea. 18 hours after the capture of the ships, the Iranian command decided to release them. This incident occurred against the background of indirect nuclear negotiations between Washington and Tehran, which immediately turned out to be close to a halt.

The Ukrainian army received the first THeMIS robotic platform developed by the Estonian company Milrem Robotics. The program called "Crane" to saturate the Armed Forces with robotic complexes was launched by former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

Army-2022 Forum: Collective intelligence and artificial intelligence

On August 21, the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022" completed its work. Once again, the forecasts of our so-called Western partners about the isolation of Russia have been put to shame. Tens of thousands of specialists, experts, members of foreign delegations, ordinary citizens attended the events of the forum. The Forum has become a new breakthrough for Russia in military and military-technical activities.

Military historian Dmitry Boltenkov — about how the modern fleet is switching to underwater drones

The Navy receives nuclear submarines of the fourth generation. They are represented by projects of submarines with ballistic missiles on board the 955 and 955A "Borey" family and attack boats with a variety of missile and torpedo weapons of the 885 and 885M "Ash" family.

With this publication we open a new topical topic of modern military research. Your attention is invited to an article recently published by the British resource shephardmedia.com . In his work "How faithful wingmen can improve the actions of next-generation fighters", the author, Gordon Arthur, consistently analyzes the state of affairs and the prospects for the implementation of the idea of joint combat use of manned aircraft and UAVs. [In the text, notes IVi are taken in square brackets]

The device is designed to work as a slave in an advanced attacking echelon in cooperation with manned aircraft

The Kronstadt company has started work on a state contract for the development of a draft design of a multi-purpose high-speed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) "Thunder", first presented in 2020. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the enterprise at the last forum "Army-2022".

The International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022" has completed its work. The reference material summarizing the results of the forum is published on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

At the international military-technical forum, Russian robotic complexes (RTK) "Bogomol" and "Platform-MULE" were shown. This technique was created by specialists of the scientific and technical association "Avanti".

At the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum, Ural Automobile Plant JSC (as part of United Machine-Building Group LLC) presented a prototype of an unmanned truck on the Ural-432067-73 chassis with a 4x4 wheel formula. Although the machine was originally developed for the Russian Armed Forces, however, it is offered for both military and civilian applications (which was emphasized by the original "two-sided" paint scheme of the machine).

Within the framework of the Army-2022 forum, the ERA technopolis specialized exposition presents joint developments of researchers and operators of scientific companies of the military innograd with leading universities, research organizations and industrial enterprises.