US Army Begins Final Trials of MUTT Ground Wheeled Robots

The US Army will conduct final tests of wheeled ground robots MUTT (Multi-Utility Tactical Transport, multifunctional tactical transport). According to NPlus1, testing is scheduled for April.

According to the plans of the US Army (Ground Forces), after the final tests, small-scale production of robots will begin in September this year, and by the end of the year they will be put into service.

MUTT was developed by General Dynamics Land Systems as part of the SMET (Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport) tender for the supply of a ground robot for the transportation of goods to the US Army. The company's specialists offered the military a wheeled robot MUTT (Multi-Utility Tactical Transport). The robot is designed in three versions with wheel configurations 4 × 4, 6 × 6 and 8 × 8, at the same time, the wheelbase can be replaced with a tracked one.

According to the company, MUTT is capable of transporting goods weighing up to 454 kg, working for 72 hours and covering a distance of up to 100 kilometers. In motion, the robot can generate electricity with a power of up to 1 kW, while at a standstill - up to 3 kW.

The operator can control the robot, but there is also a fully automatic mode and a mode of following the soldiers.

The design of the device provides, if necessary, the installation of a combat module or platform for launching drones. The main tasks are the transportation of ammunition, equipment, the evacuation of the wounded.

Earlier it was reported that under the terms of the agreement, General Dynamics Land Systems must supply the US Army with 624 new robots, maintenance equipment and simulators. The first batch of MUTTs is due to enter the troops in the first quarter of 2022, and the end of deliveries is scheduled for the end of October 2024.

Comments

[Dmt]

A robot for carrying cargo is a good idea, but who will transport it, if something happens? .. Fighting still implies the failure of equipment (often with the direct participation of the enemy). Moreover, his power unit ("hole" in the common people) looks so erotic - you can immediately see where to shoot.

[Flooding]

Quote: DMT

A robot for carrying loads is a good idea

millions of bachelors will disagree with you
I would like a robot for cleaning and cooking delicious homemade meals

[Dmt]

Quote: Flood

I would like a robot for cleaning and cooking delicious homemade meals

Unfortunately, so far such a problem can only be solved with the help of a female.

[Alex_You]

Quote: Flood

Quote: DMT

A robot for carrying loads is a good idea

millions of bachelors will disagree with you
I would like a robot for cleaning and cooking delicious homemade meals

Here a biorobot is needed, and with a pumped-over artificial intelligence. Of course, such models of biorobots come across less and less in everyday life.

[Flooding]

Quote: Alex_You

Of course, such models of biorobots come across less and less in everyday life.

unpretentious and flexible?

[neri73-r]

Quote: Flood

I would like a robot for cleaning and cooking delicious homemade meals

And can all the same get married or find a permanent woman?

[Flooding]

Quote: neri73-r

And can all the same get married or find a permanent woman?

thanks for the advice
judging by the numbers in your nickname, we are the same age
but how to get married, so as not to divorce later, until I learned

[Nikon O'Conor]

Damn, I’ll say I’m tired of carrying packages from Magnet)) It would be nice))
In general, it is somehow not impressive, especially the 4x4 version. I don't know how it really is, but it looks ... toy, or what? Those who have been to the Tver swamps in spring and autumn will understand. And for our Orenburg region, I think it will do ... who has a Magnet far away))

[t-12]

If something happens, he will be thrown and written off. Well, or after the battle, they will find it, take it to the base and fix it.

In general, this thing is not for battles, but for marches. To lightly reach the enemy (and then the duffel bags on the back and in the old fashioned way).

[Nikon O'Conor]

I will add: for marches through the steppes or deserts. For our directions, it is not dangerous. IMHO.

[t-12]

For our directions, there will be a tracked version. Although the continuation of the economic / technological war is more likely.

[OgnennyiKotik]

New times, new technologies. Donkey 2.0

[t-12]

The donkey does not require gasoline, he needs grass.

[Yves762]

Donkey in a hungry year, al cauldron, you can eat.
....Though...
You can sell a tin can to the locals, use it as a shahid-mobile ...

[Thrifty]

And what does he have with speed, with the ability to install weapons on it, from small arms to anti-tank guided missiles? In general, there is very little information! The article is superficial! !!

[Flooding]

Quote: Thrifty

And what does he have with speed, with the ability to install weapons on it, from small arms to anti-tank guided missiles?

The main tasks are the transportation of ammunition, equipment, and the evacuation of the wounded.

common mule
but smarter

[AVA77]

About the mind is not a fact. A mule does not need a person for an autonomous existence.
Attack, on not very rough terrain, is good.

[Flooding]

Quote: AVA77

A mule does not need a person for an autonomous existence.

I agree that the issue is controversial
as well as the question of what we consider to be the mind
woodlice, after all, also does not need a person for existence
but it will be difficult to set the task in front of a mule or woodlice and demand it independently
after all, instincts and intelligence are fundamentally different things

[AVA77]

And I agree that the issue is moot. It's tight with a mule, it's easier with a dog, carry bags with reports, and so on. Well, ay electronic mule is not intellect, not instincts, it crawls behind the back of the one in front and writes the GPS coordinates to the back, he will crawl along these coordinates. I'm not even sure if he is able to distinguish the back of a person from the back of a horse.
Unless, of course, there are any special electronic or optical marks on which it is being conducted.

[Flooding]

Quote: AVA77

Well ay electronic mule not intelligence not instincts

this is what we call AI

Quote: AVA77

I'm not even sure if he is able to distinguish the back of a person from the back of a horse.

again back to what we consider to be intelligence

[AVA77]

In my opinion, AI is the ability to make optimal (correct) decisions in non-standard situations and the possibility of learning during operation.
Sorry that the wording is so dry.

[Flooding]

Quote: AVA77

AI is the ability to make optimal (correct) decisions in non-standard situations and the ability to learn during operation.

in the first part of the wording I agree unconditionally
I'm not sure about self-study
what should be the defining criteria for such a process? too hard
Is it necessary, for example, for an AI carrier to distinguish the back of a person from the back of a horse, if this has nothing to do with his tasks?
definitely not. but this does not mean lack of intelligence
abstract knowledge is not a characteristic feature of intelligence
since erudition and erudition, by and large, do not necessarily indicate the presence of a sharp mind

[AVA77]

Let's say the AI ​​distinguishes a person from a horse, and does not go after horses.
Suppose such a situation that the AI ​​needs to follow a person on a horse and transport a valuable oversized cargo itself and the deadlines are tight.

Let's say AI doesn't distinguish between humans and horses.
Then he chases everything with horses and donkeys and nibbles the grass
In my opinion, self-training is necessary, or at least at the team level
Follow me, follow an object, follow it, etc.

[Nikon O'Conor]

but smarter

A moot point))) The mule has instincts - when firing a fast march, he will knock him out of a dangerous place ... along with your weapons))). Therefore, you need to catch up with him, therefore the risk of getting kulu decreases. You come, at the end of the fight with a mule: "Guys, I brought the cartridges."
Sarcasm)).

[knn54]

Robot carrier. Yes, there will be enough work in civilian life.
"The iron horse is replacing the peasant horse."

[Kerensky]

I wonder what is wrong with the software of this crawler? For me, this is how he should be able to follow with the group, at any time return to the starting point of the route and back. If it is impossible to follow the return route as it was, look for a detour with a return to the route.
Although the military will want everything at once. And so that he would run for beer and bring change ...

[t-12]

What about the software? The robot sees the soldiers and follows them. At the same time, he remembers the path (and can return back with the wounded). It's simple.

[Kerensky]

The robot sees the soldiers and follows them... At the same time, he remembers the path (and can return back with the wounded). It's simple.

What does he see ?! This pepelats will light up the whole group!
If there are already 300, with which it is necessary to return, then they have already come under fire. Then the task is reduced to a generally trivial one: to destroy this pepelats under fire, to remove 425 kg. load, mount the 300th and home Sivka! We’ll watch the suitcases for now.
Here at the bases he is a fine fellow - he got footcloths and get out where he came from!

[t-12]

The camera sees. Well, or follows the radio beacon, depending on the settings.

You can make an automatic drop of the load (the sides open and everything falls). And then 300 are loaded. Or, perhaps, there will be a separate "evacuation" version of the robot (no load, with protection from bullets and shrapnel).

Nobody will watch the bags with rations and cartridges, they will simply be abandoned.

[tralflot1832]

I don't even understand, there are a lot of migrants on the border with Mexico, we take 1000 with a higher technical education, a thousand hummers, a year of study and here's a thousand biorobots. Or the option for ground robots is more expensive.

[t-12]

Biorobots are more expensive. They need to be placed in barracks, fed, clothed, trained, paid salaries, given all sorts of benefits, provided with insurance and a pension. And then I bought a robot (at the price of a soldier's annual salary), and the robot plows for 10-20 years.

[tralflot1832]

I hope their robot at the right time will display on the control panel: Remove your hands from the device. COLD The installation once a year suits this, swears and does not want to work

[t-12]

A person can also get sick, twist his leg, go crazy, etc. Moreover, humans have more diseases / errors than machines.

[tralflot1832]

I believe that there should be a certain limit for automation. Boeing 737 MAX This is an example. Pilots with the evil genius of the computer did not cope.

[t-12]

To do this, d. manual control button. What is on robo-mobiles, what is on airplanes.

And the pitch needs to be measured using several sensors, and not one at a time (as on a Boeing).

[tralflot1832]

As far as I understood from the investigation, the crew 10 11 times raised the nose of the aircraft up and monitored the thrust of the engines. And the pilots were trained to fly a Boeing 737 MAX, so you cannot judge their preparedness. Or you are a pilot of one of the two Boeing 737 MAX in the Russian company S7?

[Basarev]

Much more practical than any battle droid. I have always said that logistics are of paramount importance in war. Soldiers will not fight much without supplies. And here is a robot designed just for this.

[Kerensky]

I have always said that logistics are of paramount importance in war. Soldiers will not fight much without supplies. And here is a robot designed just for this.

Do we still have TPK in our warehouses? Screw a migrant to it - a minibus and the problem is solved.

[Basarev]

Such a migrant will become a tasty target for hostile propaganda. He, receiving pennies, forced to pull huge garbage instead of funny little shots on the front line, will very easily believe in the sincerity of the words on the leaflets. Are you sure you need a traitor in a strategic warehouse?

[tralflot1832]

So he will give passengers a lift along the way.

[rocket757]

It seems necessary, that's just WHERE?
Where trees are piled up, windbreak, hills / streams, there are no roads at all, they won't turn around with him, and it's not like storming cities with him ah!
In general, the idea is good, but not everywhere and not always.

[syndicalist]

These are just the first steps in this direction. The same robots from Boston Dynamics, move on their paws no worse than living ones, overcoming any obstacles.

[rocket757]

Quote: syndicalist

These are just the first steps in this direction. The same robots from Boston Dynamics, move on their paws no worse than living ones, overcoming any obstacles.

This is all understandable ... as with many autonomous systems, the problem is in the energy source. There is nothing suitable yet ...

[ksv36]

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