[Hatman]

Autonomy in the Military:
The Army's Drone Helicopters Will Airmail Driverless Cars to the Battlefield
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the...he-battlefield

Last month we learned that the military is developing a pilotless version of its iconic Black Hawk helicopter. Now we have some idea of how the new drone will be used.

For the next 18 months, a group of researchers will work to program the autonomous Black Hawk to deliver a driverless vehicle through the sky and lower it down on the ground where it will autonomously survey the land.

The car-toting robocopter will carry the all-terrain vehicle in a belly sling, scope out the best place to land, and then set the self-driving, sensing car free to search the area for dangerous contaminants.

"All of this will occur out of direct sight, without human intervention and without putting human lives at risk," explained a press release announcing the project, called Extended Operational Reach with Autonomous Air and Ground Vehicles.
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