Thursday, October 3, 2019

A Look Inside A Startup That Is Building AI-Powered Military Technology



NBC: Inside Anduril, the startup that is building AI-powered military technology

"The technology companies that should be solving these problems refuse to do so," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey told NBC News.

On a blazing day in the scrublands just outside Irvine, California, Brian Schimpf watched as a man walked into a distant valley wearing a long-sleeved shirt and a hat to protect against the sun.

Within moments, sensors in towers on a nearby hillside used pattern-recognition algorithms to spot the man, and remote cameras found and tracked him. A large helicopter-like drone whirred to life, and flew over to conduct closer surveillance.

Schimpf is the CEO and co-founder of Anduril, a startup that is building surveillance and defense systems for the U.S. military and other agencies. The man being followed by these sensors was an employee, he explained, demonstrating the ability of this system to find and track a human intruder over a wide area with almost no human input.

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WNU Editor: Welcome to the future.

More News On The Start-Up Anduril

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey’s defense start-up is now making attack drones -- CNBC
Tech's Most Controversial Startup Now Makes Attack Drones -- Bloomberg
Palmer Luckey's military tech company Anduril is sending drone destroyers to conflict zones -- Business Insider
Palmer Luckey is making battering-ram drones now -- The Verge
Palmer Luckey's company is making drone-ramming drones -- Yahoo

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