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Rheinmetall Partners With Australian Researchers to Develop Self-Driving Vehicles For Military

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Rheinmetall Partners With Australian Researchers to Develop Self-Driving Vehicles For Military

The research program aims to develop advanced sovereign robotics and automated vehicle technologies that will create a local automated military vehicle capability.

Rheinmetall Partners With Australian Researchers to Develop Self-Driving Vehicles For Military
Credit: Rheinmetall Defence

European defense contractor Rheinmetall is partnering with Australian researchers to develop advanced sovereign robotics and automated vehicle technologies in order to create a local automated military vehicle capability under the Autonomous Combat Warrior (ACW) program, the company announced in a February 27 statement.

“Rheinmetall’s Australian, German and Canadian development teams will work alongside research teams from Defence Science and Technology (DST) group, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT),” the statement reads. 

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