helicopter controlled entirely by a flight computer flew low and fast through a valley while making a 134-kilometre demonstration flight to deliver blood supplies.of a Black Hawk helicopter could also pick up more than one metric ton of cargo slung beneath its belly and even change flight paths to pick up a mannequin standing in for a wounded soldier. The flight demonstrations took place during an exercise in October.
“I think it’s a significant jump from the prior exercises and experiments where there was still a pilot onboard,” says A separate flight test started out with the helicopter lifting off with a metric ton of cargo attached to a 12-metre sling and flying toward a designated landing zone. During that flight, Sikorsky showed how a human operator on the ground could use a touchscreen table to command the uncrewedThe autonomous Black Hawks may steer clear of some prior controversies involving autonomous military vehicles armed with weapons.
Blood Supplies... an autonomous military helicopter... so when are those autonomous military helicopters going to be deployed in hospitals? Oh they don't? Oh they actually will be refitted with weaponry in order to deliver collateral death to middle-eastern civilians?
This is Black Hawk.
Those stretcher bearers didn't hang around.
It's all fun and games until it transforms.
Wow, next they'll be landing unmanned probes on distant planets
What could possibly go wrong? Men have been willing to risk their lives to provide their mk 1 eyeballs, skill and athleticism to serve others since we invented the stick. 'It is the job of the Union movement to force business owners to find ways to replace humans with machines'
Not gonna lie, I think this is pretty cool tbh.