South Korea is developing an autonomous robot that will move through a tunnel and detect threats

by time news

The R&D arm of the South Korean military has completed preliminary research towards developing an autonomous tunnel robot, and a prototype has already been tested.

The development is in collaboration with the U.S. Army Flat Vehicle Development Agency, and Defense News was told that the new robot would advance inside a tunnel even without prior information, detect and detect underground threats and map the tunnel in three dimensions. The robot will be equipped with artificial intelligence and software for identifying and tracking their underground threats.

One operator can operate a robot with a mobile phone or tablet, tablet, and can control it by operating several tools simultaneously. The robot will be based on GPS navigation but will also be able to operate without GPS in a tunnel or cave at great depth.

In South Korea, a prototype of the robot is already operating, which managed to run the experiments in a 1.5 km long tunnel, to identify underground obstacles, various objects in a radiation-saturated area and also to map the tunnel in three dimensions.

This type of equipment is essential to the South Korean military because of North Korea’s practice of digging tunnels and caves deep into the ground for military purposes. So far they have discovered in the south the location of four huge tunnels in the north.

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