Air Force testing system to stop active shooters with robots and drones

The U.S. Air Force is testing a system that uses artificial intelligence and drones on its bases aimed at putting a stop to an active shooter.

"The entire idea behind the platform is being able to take a robot and ultimately impede, disorient an active threat on an installation before they can do any more damage," ZeroEyes Senior Vice President of Government Solutions JT Wilkins, whose company is developing the technology for the government, told National Defense.

The system will build off the company's AI gun-detection software that is already in use...