It will be no surprise to researchers working in the field of robot teleoperation to hear that autopilots on UAVs are substantially better than human pilots at keeping their aircraft safe. Apparently the U.S. Air Force's highly trained "real" pilots, have crash landed $80 million worth of Predators, compared to none by the "Xbox trained" Army techs.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=62334
The upshot is that the Air Force is being forced to go to autonomous vehicles as quickly as possible.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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