DARPA has trained one of its robots to identify humans. There’s just one little problem: The robot is cartoonishly easy to confuse. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

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So Scharre explains how two of the Marines "somersaulted for 300 meters," another two hid under a cardboard box, and another "stripped a fir tree and walked like a fir tree." Apparently a lot of ...

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) robots were apparently trained to identify human targets — but were easily fooled when soldiers hid in cardboard boxes, a hilarious ...