DVD 2018: QinetiQ's TITAN Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV)

Melanie Rovery talks to QinetiQ about the TITAN Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Autonomous Last Mile Resupply.

[@heresteven]

This be awesome to deliver amazon packages 🙂

[@imnotafurryiswear6391]

It’s a modern day Renault FT-17

[@SoCalFreelance]

Can the UGV autonomously follow along with a platoon as they patrol? Carry all their water, extra ammo, SATCOM, even act as a stretcher to carry away the wounded. It should also be a mobile C4ISR sensor relaying back EMINT info so enemy comms can be geolocated and as a blue force comms/blue force tracker intermediary. Of course a weaponized version piloted by a human operator hundreds or thousands of miles away (like current UAVs) is inevitable.

[@antimatter4733]

So it can keep getting stuck and lost, make noise, get hacked, and cost a ridiculous amount, just so people don't have to carry anything.... When you have money to waste killing goat farmers in 3rd world countries but you can't provide healthcare, security or education back home........

[@SoCalFreelance]

Well then by that logic we should never have evolved beyond spears and swords. Are the thousands of UAV's currently flying now getting "hacked"? NO. Yes, the israel-firster neocons like Bolton and Haley are despicable, but that won't halt technological progress. And you negate how military tech migrates into the civilian sector. Imagine the UGV carrying forest firefighting gear, or food, water, medicine to natural disaster areas.

[@antimatter4733]

@@SoCalFreelance the thousands of UAVs currently flying are over 3rd world countries bombing farmers who probably make less then the cost of one missile in their entire lives. And yes, UAVs have been hacked. Sure a small amount of technology is carried into other sectors, but nowhere near the trillions of dollars spent on war. If that money was actually used to better their countries we'd probably be a hundred years more advanced by now

[@SoCalFreelance]

"bombing farmers" "UAV's have been hacked" - source?

[@antimatter4733]

@@SoCalFreelance dude Google it, I'm not having a referenced debate in a KZbin comment. Not worth my time

[@jokerm133]

Cool the robot is guided by a Xbox controller lol.

[@iainmcmillan616]

700

[@antimatter4733]

Looks cool, sounds stupid...

[@rawpotatofella9654]

guess you're just an armchair general, no reasoning to back your reasoning

[@antimatter4733]

@@rawpotatofella9654 1. Expensive 2. Can be hacked 3. Will not be able to traverse the same terrain as a human 4. Loud 5. Will get stuck/ Lost 6. Pointless, literally no advantage over just sending a person in an armored vehicle to get your stuff

[@angelosreiper4051]

Antimatter I'm with you... 7. comm. jammers, 8. centralized command infrastructure, vulnerable to surgical strikes, 9. Cost of operations includes training of a pilot, full vehicle maintenance, 10. dependant on electronic sensors, 11. Firmware must be constantly maintained up to date to ensure cybersecurity, 12. Prone to glitches and technical failures

[@rannoratsep6241]

@@angelosreiper4051 tanks and other ugv's/military vehicles have a same problems

[@rannoratsep6241]

Im estonian(estonians created milrem) and i know about milrem robotics 5 times more than you If you do not know nothing about milrem, then dont say anything

[@seanmorrissey9326]

Your system here is flawed drastically.