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Autonomous drones are on the way.
California-based defense technology company Shield AI on Monday unveiled a new ability to create a swarm of drones called V-Bat Teams. This technology is expected to be used by the US Department of Defense in programs such as Replicator.
V-Bat Teams is based on the company's artificial intelligence called Hivemind. These teams, consisting of multiple V-Bat drones, are designed to operate autonomously in high-threat environments without the need for instructions or GPS navigation.
Brandon Tseng, co-founder and president of Shield AI, said V-Bat Teams could be a great addition to the Pentagon's Replicator program, which aims to deploy thousands of autonomous drones in the next two years to counter China.
At the moment, V-Bat Teams include four unmanned aerial vehicles, but the company plans to double this figure every year. While the Hivemind software can already manage a significantly larger number of V-Bats, the key constraint is the logistics of launching and landing multiple drones at the same time.
Shield AI plans to sell V-Bat Teams to all US military services, as well as foreign customers. "This will open up a new paradigm of operations when you have so many aircraft capable of operating autonomously," Tseng said.
For now, however, Tseng doesn't see V-Bat Teams fitting into the Air Force's plan to build a fleet of cooperating combat drones that would fly alongside manned fighter jets like the F-35.
California-based defense technology company Shield AI on Monday unveiled a new ability to create a swarm of drones called V-Bat Teams. This technology is expected to be used by the US Department of Defense in programs such as Replicator.
V-Bat Teams is based on the company's artificial intelligence called Hivemind. These teams, consisting of multiple V-Bat drones, are designed to operate autonomously in high-threat environments without the need for instructions or GPS navigation.
Brandon Tseng, co-founder and president of Shield AI, said V-Bat Teams could be a great addition to the Pentagon's Replicator program, which aims to deploy thousands of autonomous drones in the next two years to counter China.
At the moment, V-Bat Teams include four unmanned aerial vehicles, but the company plans to double this figure every year. While the Hivemind software can already manage a significantly larger number of V-Bats, the key constraint is the logistics of launching and landing multiple drones at the same time.
Shield AI plans to sell V-Bat Teams to all US military services, as well as foreign customers. "This will open up a new paradigm of operations when you have so many aircraft capable of operating autonomously," Tseng said.
For now, however, Tseng doesn't see V-Bat Teams fitting into the Air Force's plan to build a fleet of cooperating combat drones that would fly alongside manned fighter jets like the F-35.
