Army picks wearable computers with artificial intelligence (AI) for documenting patients on the battlefield

Published on February 20, 2024



The goal is for the autonomous documentation to work completely without network connection while documenting patients on the battlefield.

FORT DETRICK, Md. – U.S. Army battlefield medicine experts needed a soldier-worn computer to enable medics to document patients autonomously through passive sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. They found their solution from Tomahawk Robotics in Melbourne, Fla.

Officials of the Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity at Fort Detrick, Md., announced a sole-source contract to Tomahawk Robotics last month for KxM Edge compute devices with peripheral items. The value of the contract has yet to be negotiated.

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