Autonomous Warfare Moves to the Water: Insights From Virginia Tech Experts
August 04, 2026
August 04, 2026
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Aug. 4 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
* * *
Autonomous warfare moves to the water: Insights from Virginia Tech experts
By Chelsea Seeber
An unmanned boat motors toward a beach and drops off an armed robot, which then walks itself toward a target. It sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie, but Ukraine tested this high-tech combat tactic in mid-July on a Russian-occupied spit of land, marking the first . . .
* * *
Autonomous warfare moves to the water: Insights from Virginia Tech experts
By Chelsea Seeber
An unmanned boat motors toward a beach and drops off an armed robot, which then walks itself toward a target. It sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie, but Ukraine tested this high-tech combat tactic in mid-July on a Russian-occupied spit of land, marking the first . . .