Lessons from Project Convergence are shaping the Army's future robotics buys

Lessons from Project Convergence are shaping the Army's future robotics buys

The Army tried something new at its fifth Project Convergence experiment this year: Invading the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, CA, with around 250 technologies that yielded plenty of ideas for how soldiers and robots might fight together in the future. The service turned PC-C5 into a “coherent warfighting framework,” said Lt. Gen. David Hodne, director of the Army Futures and Concepts Center; the 18th Airborne Corps led a joint forcible…

France's Marine National and Army de Terre have tried out in a joint amphibious exercise in the south of the country near Toulon, offering a good dozen companies of marketable drones, and how these devices could be adapted for military problem solving or for such purposes. In the landing and landing defense scenarios, flying, running and floating robots were used in reconnaissance, defensive and combat mode, as well as in the aftercare of the tr…

By 2028, robotic units could join French forces in the field.

France plans to increase its reliance on robots in combat. The French armed forces are developing robots that are expected to be combat-ready by 2040. Much sooner—around 2028—the country plans to use ground robots to equip its armed forces.