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Freeman [soylentnews.org] writes:

On October 18, the National Advanced Mobility Consortium—an organization of industry and academic researchers contracted by the US government to develop autonomous ground systems for the military—announced the selection of four companies to build prototype light robotic combat vehicles for the US Army. These are "non-developmental" prototypes, meaning they're based on existing technologies that could be turned into deployable systems with relatively minor modifications.
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Two of each design will be fielded as "platoons" for testing, with the goal of wide deployment of tankbots by 2028.
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Testing of Next Generation Combat Vehicle control systems for the robotic vehicles will begin in March, using modified Bradley Armored Fighting Vehicles configured as "Mission Enabler Technologies-Demonstrators" (MET-Ds) to control the robotic platforms. The first tests will use four automated M113 armored personnel carriers as "surrogates;" future tests will incorporate the prototype platoons along with the M113s.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/robo-tank-army-picks-contenders-for-robotic-combat-vehicle-competition/ [arstechnica.com]

Tankbots seems like a good name for a dystopian sci-fi movie to me.

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