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Woven into battle gear, the fibers could detect vital signs, track developing situations and warn soldiers in the field of impending danger.

The US Army deployed a Robotic Combat Vehicle surrogate for the first time in a simulated battle last month.

Brig. Gen. William Glaser, head of the Army's Synthetic Training Environment effort, said his team is "very proud" of One World Terrain because it "really just started off as an idea within the simulations community, but it's expanded out significantly into the operational community."

“We want to provide the flexibility to our workforce to work where and when they're most productive,” says John Willison, a senior executive at the Army...

“The idea of a loaded spring released by a latch is a staple in mechanical design, but the research team cleverly observed that engineers have yet to achieve the same performance out of a Latch-Mediated Spring Actuator that we find in nature,” Dean Culver, program manager at the lab, writes. “By more closely mimicking the geometry of a mantis shrimp's physiology, the team was able to exceed accelerations produced by limbs in other robotic devices by more than tenfold.”