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Robots
bngenoh:
--- Quote from: tschai on June 06, 2012, 08:55:05 PM ---Ahhh yes-but "needless complexity" is one of the MICs ways of diverting funds into their war chest- they will posit they might NEED to arm them at some point...they have already wasted BILLIONS on projects that have never seen the light of day or have failed miserably-after all-it's not THEIR money they are wasting, so spare no expense-no matter how absurd. I was IN the military and saw first hand how much money can be wasted-for instance a light bulb on one of our control panels (I am not exaggerating) would cost $200.00-you could get a similar one at Radio Shack for $1.50-of course it was not MIL spec so couldn't be used in our equipment. We routinely "cas repped" tools and materials (i.e. stored them in Davey Jones locker-dumped them over the side into the ocean) so we could get new ones. This was encouraged. It matters not one whit they have something that would make a thing redundant- there's money to be made by a lot of various concerns so they will "green light" such a project-whether or not it ultimately proves useful
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:jawdrop: I forgot about that aspect tschai, I was projecting common sense to an illogical cabal, sigh, thanks for setting the record straight.
bngenoh:
--- Quote from: _http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/darpa-arm-2/ ---It’s only been three months since the Pentagon’s latest robot — the one able to staple paperwork and answer phone calls with a single autonomous arm — demonstrated some of those amazing skills. Now, the freaky humanoid ‘bot is back. And this time, he has two arms. And a name.
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Both of Robbie’s arms move with seven degrees of freedom, along with a rotating wrist and multiple, dexterous fingers. Those fingers also incorporate pressure sensors, allowing Robbie to touch and sense its environs in a manner akin to humans. And take a good look at the ‘bot’s head. That gaping mouth is actually a LIDAR camera. Behind those beady eyes lurks a stereo-vision camera. And what look like ears are, in fact, microphones.
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Trickle down technologies.
Jeremy F Kreuz:
Reading this thread it just dawned on me that this whole Robot - Drone business might be in light of their plan to go underground. You would still want to watch - control what is happening on the surface and no pilot or other underground would like ot volunteer to go outside. Just let machines do the dirty work. FWIW.
bngenoh:
--- Quote from: Jeremy F Kreuz on June 07, 2012, 09:21:06 AM ---Reading this thread it just dawned on me that this whole Robot - Drone business might be in light of their plan to go underground. You would still want to watch - control what is happening on the surface and no pilot or other underground would like ot volunteer to go outside. Just let machines do the dirty work. FWIW.
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That's my reasoning as well, JFK:
--- Quote from: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/246396-DARPA-Spends-7-Million-On-Robot-Avatar-Project ---DARPA hopes to create real-life "Avatars" in the near future.
--- Quote from: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/246434-Killing-by-PowerPoint ---The New York Times has revealed that President Barack Obama hosts a "Terror Tuesday" secure PowerPoint-style teleconference attended weekly by his top 100 intelligence and security officials. After the meeting he goes through a "nominating process" by viewing the "baseball cards" showing suspected terrorists, before personally deciding who is to be assassinated by drones; he also, in some cases, explicitly approves killing the suspect's family if it should be in the vicinity of the strike.
No one should be surprised by what the article reveals. The journalists describe a president "quite comfortable with the use of force on behalf of the United States" whose drone wars have increased in number and lethality since he ascended to the Oval Office. As a result, it has been plausibly suggested that killing by machine will become the low-intensity warfare option of the future for every nation that can afford the technology, following the lead of the United States.
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Machines creating machines to conquer other machines, madness. :rolleyes:
bngenoh:
--- Quote from: Jeremy F Kreuz on June 07, 2012, 09:21:06 AM ---Reading this thread it just dawned on me that this whole Robot - Drone business might be in light of their plan to go underground. You would still want to watch - control what is happening on the surface and no pilot or other underground would like ot volunteer to go outside. Just let machines do the dirty work. FWIW.
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With this:
--- Quote from: _http://rt.com/news/mind-controlled-drone-china-157/ ---Chinese researchers have unveiled a system that allows users to control drones with their thoughts. The technology was designed to help handicapped people, but could have ample applications in other fields as well.
A video posted to YouTube by researchers at Zhejiang University shows how the system, called Flybuddy2, works. And it appears that you don’t have to be a nuclear scientist to build one. All you need is an EEG headset with a Bluetooth connection to a laptop – plus a quadrotor Parrot AR Drone linked to the computer.
“The computer can receive EEG signals via Bluetooth and convert them to specific commands to control the AR drones through WiFi,” a presenter explains.
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It'll be just like a video game, and that has already been inculcated into people, it's not much of a cultural shock though, the introduction of such technologies that is, all part of the plan I guess.
Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH96O5niEnI&feature=youtu.be
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