U.S. Air Force Developing Robot ‘Dogs’ To Keep Runways Clear Of Hazardous Debris

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U.S. Air Force Developing Robot ‘Dogs’ To Keep Runways Clear Of Hazardous Debris
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Foreign Object Debris or FOD – anything that is not supposed to be on the tarmac – causes an estimated $4 billion of losses each year to the aviation industry. This new tech could change that:

“Second, machine learning models have gone through waves of ‘miniaturization,’ which basically means that code that used to require large compute resources and many gigabytes can now operate with only megabytes worth of space,” says Kalin.

This allows the pack of dogs to work in places where there may be no connection to the internet, such as military sites or aircraft carriers. Kalin says that debris removal is not a requirement for the initial contract, but they have it on their roadmap. Their likely solution will involve fitting some vehicles with an off-the-shelf robotic arm and handling software. This would turn the robots into a complete runway clearing solution.

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