Israel deploys controversial new robotic guns in the West Bank

(13 Oct 2022) MIDEAST ROBOTIC WEAPON SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTION SUMMARY: LENGTH: 7:19 ASSOCIATED PRESS West Bank, Al-Aroub - 6 October 2022 1. Close of Smart Shooter automated gun on Israeli army guard tower at entrance to al-Aroub refugee camp 2. Mid of guard tower next to minaret 3. Wide of guard tower and minaret 4. Mid of guard tower and main street shops in al-Aroub 5. Low shot of pedestrians, traffic 6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kamal Abu Hishesh, 19, al-Aroub resident: "It fires by itself without any difficulty from the soldier. When he (the Israeli soldier) sees a little boy, he presses a button or something and it fires by itself." 7. Cutaway of Abu Hishesh 8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kamal Abu Hishesh, 19, al-Aroub resident: "Also, it is very fast, even faster than the soldiers, and the smell of gas that it releases is stronger than the smell of gas fired by the gun powders that the army used before. The tear gas bombs that it fires can reach the end of the camp and all the way up there. I have seen it several times and I have videos." 9. Wide of guard tower ASSOCIATED PRESS Yagur, Israel - 3 October 2022 10. Setup shot of Michal Mor, Smart Shooter CEO and founder, Sharone Aloni, vice president R&D, Smart Shooter 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharone Aloni, vice president R&D of Smart Shooter: "This here is the Smash fire control system, which is a computer vision-based fire control system based on a camera to enable to highly increase the accuracy of soldiers all over the world and basically greatly reduce the collateral damage and being able to only hit what is necessary." 12. Various of Aloni and technology 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharone Aloni, VP R&D of Smart Shooter: "Inside here, you have the computer running all the artificial intelligence computer vision algorithms, which make this what we call a true fire control system. It's not only just relying on static information. It actually considers the human, the soldier, which is not stable. He's under pressure. He's tired. Sometimes he didn't get enough training. And also, the target is usually dynamic means it doesn't stay in place and it's moving all the time. And the idea is, how do we take all these different types of information, calculate everything inside the system itself, in order to provide a highly accurate impact point. And I will just assist the soldier in firing only at the right time, only at the right place, in order to actually hit what needs to be hit and do not hit anything that we do not want to hit." 14. Cutaway of Aloni 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharone Aloni, VP R&D of Smart Shooter: "Again, it is very important to note that the systems are not automatic, meaning there is always a human soldier in the loop, and he needs to actually press the trigger. The system will never fire on its own, and that's a major item to remember." 16. Various of Smart Shooter technology 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Michal Mor, Smart Shooter CEO and founder: "Coming from the world of precise missiles, SmartShooter's fire control systems try to achieve two main goals. The first goal is to protect our soldiers by enhancing the distance between them and the situation. The second goal is to reduce collateral damage, what we call in the military language, which is avoiding the hit of innocent bystanders in the situation. We do that by making sure that the soldier has a very precise hit only on legitimate targets. And we do it by using less firepower. Imagine that instead of using a missile, we are using a 556 caliber." 18. Various of calibrating equipment 20. Close of technology ASSOCIATED PRESS ++VIDEO CALL++ Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ebdfc96afe234558aab1cd780a8b525c