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This isn’t quite a full retirement. The Scout will not be taken into the woods and shot, or forced into the risky life of a bomb-defusing robot. Instead, the program is being reoriented.
“As a result, we are ending our field tests and reorienting the program.”
According to Bloomberg, there were approximately 400 workers on the project, and nearly all will be moved to other teams, leaving behind a skeleton crew to explore autonomous robots.
