The Air Force has awarded a contract to Soar Technologies to develop drones ” that not only think, but anticipate the moves of human pilots.” The idea is that these new drones will be able to anticipate how human pilots will respond to a drone flying too close so that when drones try to land at busy terminals, there won’t be collisions.Soar Technologies will build something “that uses “memory management, pattern matching, and goal-based reasoning” to infer the intentions of nearby aircraft. Not presuming that every flight will go according to plan, the Schema Engine’s “cognitive explanation mechanism” will help the drone figure out if a pilot is flying erratically or out of control.”
There’s a lot happening in the world. Through it all, Marketplace is here for you.
You rely on Marketplace to break down the world’s events and tell you how it affects you in a fact-based, approachable way. We rely on your financial support to keep making that possible.
Your donation today powers the independent journalism that you rely on. For just $5/month, you can help sustain Marketplace so we can keep reporting on the things that matter to you.
