Army Advances Human-Machine Integration Tests to Enhance, Fight With Combat Units

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Soldiers of the Maneuver Center of Excellence Experimental Company, 1st Battalion, 29 Infantry Regiment, 316th Cavalry Brigade, employ integrated robotics during a simulated operation as attendees of the Human Machine Integration Summit II view the action, Oct. 17, 2023, at Fort Moore, Ga. The Army has been working with prototypes and performing exercises with new technology including robotic combat vehicles, or RCVs, to help achieve the Secretary of the Army’s goal of “no blood for first contact,” where human machine integrated formations shoulder risk normally assumed by Soldiers. (U.S. Army photo by Denise Mosley)
Soldiers of the Maneuver Center of Excellence Experimental Company, 1st Battalion, 29 Infantry Regiment, 316th Cavalry Brigade, employ integrated robotics during a simulated operation as attendees of the Human Machine Integration Summit II view the action, Oct. 17, 2023, at Fort Moore, Ga. The Army has been working with prototypes and performing exercises with new technology including robotic combat vehicles, or RCVs, to help achieve the Secretary of the Army’s goal of “no blood for first contact,” where human-machine-integrated formations shoulder risk normally assumed by soldiers (U.S. Army photo by Denise Mosley).

December 17, 2024 | Originally published by U.S. Army on October 29, 2024

WASHINGTON — Robots integrated into Army formations can help protect soldiers and revolutionize warfare in multiple domains.

“Human-machine integration forces can take on dangerous battlefield operations, including overwatch, or movement of troops to a point of tactical advantage, and the suppression of the enemy,” said Brig. Gen. Chad Chalfont, Commandant of the Army Armor School at Fort Moore, Georgia.

Those capabilities could help achieve the Secretary of the Army’s goal of “no blood for first contact,” where human-machine-integrated formations make platoons and companies better at maneuvering, communicating, and surviving on a transparent battlefield. HMIF could shoulder the risk normally assumed by soldiers.

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