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From Semis to Surveillance: Kodiak Robotics Awarded $AU75 Million Pentagon Contract for Autonomous Vehicles
The U.S. military’s long, often winding road to rolling out autonomous vehicles has, to this point, mostly disappointed energetic technologists eager to see human drivers eliminated from combat scenarios. Though the Pentagon’s largest research agency has spent the better part of two decades fiddling with autonomous tech, now the Department of Defence is turning to…
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China’s Z-20 Helicopter Looks Awfully Familiar
China’s 70th Anniversary parade, held earlier this month in Beijing, included the debut of one of the People’s Liberation Army’s worst-kept secrets: the Harbin Z-20 helicopter. The Z-20 medium helicopter, dubbed “Copyhawk” by Western observers, is a familiar sight because it’s a copy of the American UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. Still, the Blackhawk helicopter design is…