Robotics news

California transportation authorities have allowed companies to transport passengers in fully driverless cars without a driver in the cabin and charge money for it. At the same time, even companies that have already been allowed to test drones on California roads will have to get separate permits to create an unmanned taxi service.

Over the years (since 1908), the US FBI has accumulated a huge archive of documents. Since the beginning of this year, the secret service archive has been located in the small town of Winchester, Virginia and covers an area of 22,500 square meters. meters, where 360,000 boxes store almost 2 billion rubles. office management pages.

Rheinmetall continues to improve its combat robots. On November 20, the company published on its official YouTube channel new videos of the use of the mission Master ground-based Autonomous vehicle system in combat conditions.

Dmitry Litovkin-what is currently known about a powerful underwater drone

Recently, assistant Secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation Christopher Ford suddenly recalled the Russian Poseidon torpedo equipped with a"multi-megaton nuclear warhead".

According to the American web resource Seapower , the Executive Director of submarine programs of the us Navy, rear Admiral Dave Goggins, speaking on November 18, 2020 at the webinar of the annual Symposium of the Naval submarine League, said that the US Navy has developed and tested the submarine-Launched unmanned aerial system (SLUAS), to solve the tasks of reconnaissance and targeting out of line of sight, and deployed it on ships since September 2020.

Today on the market there are 4 and a half representatives of the iron hands, which are very common. These are Fanuc, Yaskawa, ABB, Kuka (I won't mention rare earth samples). Next to them are Universal Robots-cool guys whose robots look like a nice pile of aluminum pipes and plugs, which are very actively promoted on the market.

Unmanned marine vehicles are becoming more and more popular for civil and military purposes. Departments are increasingly ordering the development of drones and are keenly interested in existing samples.

Disclaimer. Robots are very reliable guys. The average Robert of a normal brand can work like hell for years without interruption, requiring only short breaks for maintenance and calibration checks.

Thousands of fake accounts created to participate in the information war have been identified in social networks. The main purpose of the bots was to discredit Russia in Armenia and Armenians in Russia, and "threads" from them lead to Azerbaijan, Turkey and Britain. This is the first sign of a new political reality, in which the military-political Alliance of Moscow and Yerevan will be tested for strength.

Serial production of the advanced marine robot is scheduled for 2024-2025

Russia plans to develop a promising uninhabited underwater vehicle with increased autonomy by 2024, according to public procurement materials.

Engineers from Australia have developed a biomimetic soft manipulator for robots that can grab objects by wrapping around them like the tentacles of an octopus or the trunk of an elephant. The manipulator is made of fabric and is driven by a hydraulic actuator.

The us company QinetiQ has delivered the first batch of four RCV-l light ground hybrid robots to the US Army. According to Breaking Defense, these vehicles will be used to test the system of interaction of robotic complexes with people during combat operations. Such tests are planned for 2022. Larger Textron RCV-m robots will also be used in the checks.

Researchers from Cornell University (USA) have created a fiber-optic sensor that measures tactile interactions using light. It combines inexpensive LEDs and dyes, resulting in an elastic "skin" that recognizes bending, deformation, and pressure.

Only ground operations guarantee victory in modern conflicts

The center for analysis of strategies and technologies (cast) held for the third time a very productive and very informative conference "Ogarkov readings".

The Ministry of defense is strengthening the grouping of the southern military district by means of electronic warfare (EW). In the region, it is planned to significantly increase the number of new Mi-8MTPR-1 helicopters with the Rychag-AV radio suppression system. These complexes, according to the developers, are able to interfere with locators and neutralize the operation of almost any air defense systems. The emergence of new "Levers" is an effective response to the possible deployment of NATO short — and medium-range missiles in the region, experts say.

On November 13, the day of radiation, chemical and biological protection troops is celebrated annually in the Armed forces of the Russian Federation. By the end of 2025, the share of modern weapons in these troops should be 85%.

Bladebug and ORE Catapult have tested a robot to inspect wind turbine blades at an offshore wind farm on the coast of Scotland. It moves along the surface of the blade using six legs with vacuum suction cups and broadcasts video from the camera.

Engineers have developed an underwater navigation beacon that does not require power supply. It is based on a transponder that responds to sonar signals, and at the same time is powered by the energy of its sound waves.

electronic warfare systems are already playing a key role in countering modern drones

The armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh once again drew attention to the use of combat robots. Azerbaijan very actively used this type of weapons and achieved success, destroying a considerable amount of military equipment of the defense Army of Nagorno-Karabakh and even Armenia with the help of UAVS. Not having its own developments in the field of military robotics and, consequently, their production, Azerbaijan purchased foreign samples, mainly in Turkey and Israel.

In the Gulf of Finland, two radio-controlled catamarans "Kadet-M", created for the Kronstadt sea cadet military corps (St. Petersburg), were tested, Zvezda reports. The corresponding video is available on YouTube.