United States: at Fort Knox on October 15, the demonstrated a team of four autonomous ground vehicles (including an vehicle carrying an attack drone) that scout and hunt targets on their own. The test was requested by for NATO's eastern flank deterrence concept, under which robots would take the first punch of an invasion. "They don't pull the trigger until a human says pull the trigger," the agency's technical adviser said; a simulated rocket strike ended the demo. Soldiers evaluate the technology in a next test round in December.
Source: stripes.com
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A demonstration ending in a simulated strike; a human keeps the firing decision, and soldier evaluation follows in December.