AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge
Pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to develop AI-and-robot tactical threat detection and test it in a shared technological challenge.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge is a single-stage European Defence Fund Lump Sum call that pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to combine intelligent robots, drones and sensing technology so soldiers can detect, recognise and either avoid or neutralise hidden threats, reaching Technology Readine…
The Commission wants teams to combine intelligent robots, drones and sensing technology so soldiers can detect and recognise hidden threats and either avoid or neutralise them, following on from earlier hidden-threat-detection work. Solutions must reach Technology Readiness Level 6 and be proven in realistic scenarios inside the shared testing environment set up under the companion organisation topic.
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