Allison barrie fox news bio

New “smart skin” for military vehicles could let them “feel” their environment, similar to a human. The skin, for example, could let combat aircraft detect any damage by “feeling” the injury.

Allison barrie fox news bio

BAE Systems' U.K. division is developing the Smart Skin concept, which aims to give machines the ability to ‘feel’ the world around them, sense and process the data like an animal and relay the information to a “brain” within the machine.

In future combat, all machines could leverage this mega-smart skin, detecting heat, damage and stress.

Combat aircraft, drones, tanks and other land vehicles, as well as naval vessels could covered with the smart skin. Drones operating in air, on land, at sea or underwater could also deploy the technology.

How does it work?

Using a skin loaded with a range of sensors, machines could “feel” and sense things like an animal does.

The smart skin would cover a combat aircraft -- reading, recording and p