Hanwha Defense Australia collaborates with Army on robotics
14 August 23
Hanwha Defense Australia has hosted representatives from the Australian and South Korean industries to pitch to the Australian Army via the Robotic and Autonomous Systems Implementation and Coordination Office (RICO).
Hanwha’s joint industry and Army pitch aims to solve the Chief of Army’s Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Strategy.
The Australian Army’s Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Strategy V2.0 articulates how Army aspires to leverage emerging technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomy, and robotics to gain operational advantage. This document builds on the first iteration of the strategy in 2018 which led to rapid acceleration in both knowledge and demand for RAS across Army.
The “VenomX” concept provides a platform for many of Australia’s best and brightest in defence industry to showcase their disruptive technologies. VenomX’s Australian partners are 4Zero Technologies, Eclips Logistics, Deakin University, and Visionary Machines.
This solution seeks to support various elements of Army’s Robotic and Autonomous Systems Strategy such as:
Generating mass and scalable effects through teaming, swarming technologies and optionally crewed platforms.
Efficiency through improving logistics, maintenance, and medical effects utilising AI, data analytics, autonomy, and leader-follower technologies.
The purpose of the Chief of Army’s RAS Strategy is to ensure Army can generate and maintain a combat advantage. By optimising the use of RAS capabilities, Army will be able to determine the best ways to team with machines and systems.
This presents a range of options to enhance, augment, or replace those capabilities currently in service or under development, critically Army will need to continue managing the productive tension between being simultaneously Ready Now and Future Ready.
RAS will create opportunity to influence concepts, doctrine, and force design.
Army’s RAS Strategy V2.0 articulates how Army aspires to leverage emerging technology such as AI, autonomy, and robotics to gain operational advantage.
As one of Chief of Army’s priorities, VenomX is excited about the prospect of potential future collaboration with Army.
Source: Defence Connect