Everyone said that real life is comparable to the "Shenban Council" which is the United States's DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). However, a Silicon Valley company is using this name "honored". Its name is "God." Shield AI.
The name was really used, and it was a bit of a feeling of a second chance, but Shield AI had a certain momentum of “must be worthy of his own home†because it recently got a $1 million contract from the Pentagon. Its product is A fully automated military reconnaissance drone. The specific contractor is the United States Naval Special Operations Command, and its subordinate departments include the extremely elite SEALs.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Shield AI received a $2 million seed round investment in May this year. The company's official website described its mission as " protecting soldiers and civilians with artificial intelligence systems. " It clearly positioned itself as a military company, saying that it "works with special operations forces and other defense agencies to develop a new generation of intelligent detection and monitoring systems. We The AI ​​system created can be fully automated and unmanned and used in the field of military battlefields."
Most of Shield AI's research teams are from Draper Laboratories, Stanford Automation Systems Laboratory, NASA, and other forks, and some engineers who have worked for the Navy. There is also a former SEAL player who served in the Navy for 7 years, and his position in Shield AI is CFO and Business Development.
Based on this background, it is not difficult to understand that the Shield AI can get the contract of the US Naval Special Operations Command.
In August 2015, the U.S. Department of Defense established a Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) department focused on high technology. DIUx pursues "take-up" and learns directly from Silicon Valley's technology to quickly iterate its own military facilities, so it will cooperate with many large or small companies in Silicon Valley.
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The Shield AI’s $1 million contract is under the DIUx framework and is part of a 9-month Autonomous Tactical Airborne Drones project.
However, there are not too many disclosures about the details of this contract, and it is not known exactly which actions these drones will apply. Our only clue is a product introduction video on the Shield AI official website.
In the video, the Shield AI drone looks similar to a consumer-grade drone, but with many external sensors, it can be used in high-rise urban buildings, indoor locations, and other GPS failure environments.
The Shield AI drone was fully automated.
Just press the start button on the phone, the drone will automatically fly in the entire building, the real-time shooting screen will be sent to the screen of the mobile phone, and the 3D map of the entire building can be drawn in real time. Once the return key is pressed, the drone flies back to the “masterâ€. In addition, no other remote control operation is required.
And a plurality of drones can work together to complete the target space investigation.
A description of the Shield AI official website is quite impressive:
“Our products can enable the military to set aside the fog of war and enable the military to make sound decisions based on more information. It is this kind of decision that can protect and save lives.â€
Via The Daily Mail
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