“But that’s expensive to make and time consuming, so you can only do a limited number,” said Rev Lebararia, vice president of simulation technology at Nvidia. Cosmos may take some of these examples and create a three-dimensional simulation of the hospital. Then they will start different floor colors, different sizes of hospital beds—and create different environments. “You will multiply the data taken in real time by millions of the world,” said Lebaria. In the process, the model will be fine-tuned in a specific hospital setting. It’s kind of like learning from your experiences in the real world and from your own imagination (assuming your imagination is still governed by the laws of physics). Teaching robots through AI and simulation is not new, but it will become cheaper and more powerful in the coming years. Smarter brains are getting a lot of the better advances in robotics that have to be made by improving the way robots work and design what their “brains” need to do, in other words. These advances can often be faster than those that add “body,” which determines whether a robot can move through a physical world that’s better and less predictable than a controlled line of sight. The military has always been eager to change and expand the boundaries of what is physically possible. The US Navy has been testing a machine from a company called robotics gecko that can navigate vertical walls (using magnets) to perform inspections, checks, and rudeness on aircraft carriers. There are also investments made for the battlefield. While inexpensive and affordable drones have taken over rural areas in Ukraine, new efforts are being made to bring drone capabilities to the fore. Defense manufacturer XTEND received an $8.8 million contract from the Pentagon in December 2024 for drones, which can navigate in indoor space and urban environments. These so-called “Munitions Loiter” are single-strike drones—to carry detonating explosives. “The system was designed to overcome challenges like unpredictable spaces, unpredictable layouts, and GPS rejection zones,” said Rubi Liani, COOPOUPER and CTO at XTend. Deliveries to the Pentagon should begin in the first few months of this year. Another initiative-sparked in the Department by the replicator project, the Pentagon plans to spend more than $ 1 billion on a less than $ 1 billion vehicle that cannot be controlled for targets and more autonomous surface vehicles. This is of particular interest as the Department of Defense is increasingly focused on the possibility of future conflicts in the Pacific between China and Taiwan. In the conflict, the drones that have dominated the war in Ukraine have little use because the fighting will take place at sea, where small aerial drones will be limited to a few. However, ArgreSea will play a bigger role.
