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Creating reliable robotic weapons

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Scientist research computational fluid dynamics flow modelling of a submarine. *** Local Caption *** Minister for Defence Industry the Hon Christopher Pyne MP officially launched the next generation technologies fund on March 16, 2017 at the University of Adelaide. The $730 million fund is a ten year program managed by Defence Science and Technology Group encouraging research and development by Australian Industry and Academia into innovation and cutting edge technologies for the Australian Defence Force.Reliability in autonomous and robotic weapons is a core investment of the government’s $1.2bn Next Generation Technologies Fund, administered by the Defence Department’s Defence Science and Technology Group. The $50m, Brisbane-based Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre (TAS DCRC) is Australia’s first and only such centre under the fund, and currently there are no plans for another DCRC, a department spokesperson says.

 

It opened last year and is also supported by the Queensland Government.

TAS says it fosters collaboration between Australia’s defence industry and research organisations and is receiving the $50m during seven years. Supported projects are meant to develop “autonomous and robotic technologies to enable trusted and effective co-operation between humans and machines’’, TAS says.

The Next Generation Technologies Fund has enabled more than 275 projects and invested more than $170m in high-priority areas for the department,...MORE

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