Snipers practice robots shooting

The Australian company Marathon Robotics has developed a training complex for snipers. The essence of the complex is simple: robots quietly “walk” along cardboard imitation of a city street, and snipers shoot at them. A sort of duck hunt in the twenty-first century.

Video (in English) and description of the system under the cat.


The complex is pretty heaped up:

• robots do not collide, dodge unexpected obstacles, know how to coordinate their movements with each other and navigate in space using GPS and ladars
• robots walk along programmed or random paths, i.e. no need to manage each one individually
• robots react to shooting and hitting other robots - they run and hide
• everything is controlled from one laptop by one operator

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Website: www.marathonrobotics.com (TTX robots can be found in the PDF on the website )

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