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" nEUROn A team of European firms is developing this unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator, with the end goal of operating several semi-autonomous UCAVs at once to perform bombing missions while remaining invisible to radar and infrared sensors. The project will only produce a single aircraft, but the advances in swarming and stealth technologies that come from the prototype could spin off related European defense contracts. A successful nEUROn demonstrator could lead to a fully developed UCAV that&amp;#039;s perfectly suited to disabling anti-air weapons ahead of human-piloted missions.   RELATED STORIES * TECH WATCH: Real Transformer Could Be First Bot to Fire in Combat  * TECH WATCH: Robot Boats Hunt High-Tech Pirates on High- Seas  * EARLIER: Top 3 New Robots Coming Soon to the Battlefield  * COMPLETE COVERAGE: All of PM&amp;#039;s Robot Stories in One Place  * ON SALE NOW: Special Report on America&amp;#039;s Robot Army   Europe&amp;#039;s nEUROn unmanned combat aerial vehicle. (Illustration by Dassault Aviation - M. Alleaume) SGR-A1 Although some early reports envisioned South Korea&amp;#039;s new sentry robot patrolling the disputed border with North Korea, the SGR-A1 actually won&amp;#039;t go anywhere. The system is a smart, unmanned gun tower, intended to partially relieve humans of guard duty at government installations or on the border between North and South Korea. Developers have given it the capability to fire on its own, so if deployed this system would be the first to autonomously shoot at a target. However, that would likely be a mode of last resort, with humans normally making the decision to engage. There&amp;#039;s a familiar logo emblazoned on the front of the CGI render above: -Samsung. The Samsung that the Western world knows is a scrappy consumer electronics powerhouse and high-profile manufacturer of high-def TVs. And then there&amp;#039;s Samsung in South Korea, building an arsenal of tanks and armed robots.   RELATED STORIES * TECH WATCH: Real Transformer Could Be First Bot to Fire in Combat  * TECH WATCH: Robot Boats Hunt High-Tech Pirates on High- Seas  * EARLIER: Top 3 New Robots Coming Soon to the Battlefield  * COMPLETE COVERAGE: All of PM&amp;#039;s Robot Stories in One Place  * ON SALE NOW: Special Report on America&amp;#039;s Robot Army   (Diagram by Samsung Techwin) Heron TP (&amp;quot;Eitan&amp;quot;) The Heron Turboprop (or TP) is Israel&amp;#039;s largest UAV, and one of the largest in the world, with a wingspan of 26 meters. Along with the standard drone assignments of reconnaissance and targeting, experts have speculated that this giant aircraft will play a more active combat role, possibly knocking out ballistic missile sites before they can launch against Israel.   RELATED STORIES * TECH WATCH: Real Transformer Could Be First Bot to Fire in Combat  * TECH WATCH: Robot Boats Hunt High-Tech Pirates on High- Seas  * EARLIER: Top 3 New Robots Coming Soon to the Battlefield  * COMPLETE COVERAGE: All of PM&amp;#039;s Robot Stories in One Place  * ON SALE NOW: Special Report on America&amp;#039;s Robot Army   (Photograph by IDF) Protector This unmanned surface vehicle (USV) was built to provide a measure of defense against a very specific kind of asymmetric warfare-suicide boats, like the one that punctured the hull of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen. By investigating a suspicious boat, either an approaching vessel or an apparent derelict, the Protector can trigger a suicide attack, or provide a warning to larger vessels. In a less sacrificial role, the USV can also respond directly to threats, with a hail of bullets.   RELATED STORIES * TECH WATCH: Real Transformer Could Be First Bot to Fire in Combat  * TECH WATCH: Robot Boats Hunt High-Tech Pirates on High- Seas  * EARLIER: Top 3 New Robots Coming Soon to the Battlefield  * COMPLETE COVERAGE: All of PM&amp;#039;s Robot Stories in One Place  * ON SALE NOW: Special Report on America&amp;#039;s Robot Army   (Photograph by BAE Systems) BLADE (Battlefield Loitering Artillery Direct Effect) &amp;quot;Loitering munitions&amp;quot; is military speak for a brutally simple concept: kamikaze drones, UAVs that are loaded with explosives and ordered to nosedive into enemy targets. Loitering systems have been deployed, such as Israel&amp;#039;s Harpy UAV, but Britain&amp;#039;s current initiative to develop its own fleet of self-destructive robots has led to multiple UAV programs. One of them, the BLADE system, is based around the unmanned Sparrow-N aircraft. It would allow multiple drones to circle an area, searching and destroying as a team.  RELATED STORIES \u2022 TECH WATCH: Real Transformer Could Be First Bot to Fire in Combat  \u2022 TECH WATCH: Robot Boats Hunt High-Tech Pirates on High- Seas  \u2022 EARLIER: Top 3 New Robots Coming Soon to the Battlefield  \u2022 COMPLETE COVERAGE: All of PM&amp;#039;s Robot Stories in One Place  \u2022 ON SALE NOW: Special Report on America&amp;#039;s Robot Army   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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