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| Tango01 | 16 May 2015 10:47 p.m. PST |
… The Pentagon Invests In Robots, Lasers, And New Technologies. "It's 6-foot-2, with laser eyes and vise-grip hands. It can walk over a mess of jagged cinder blocks, cut a hole in a wall, even drive a car. And soon, Leo, Lockheed Martin's humanoid robot, will move from the development lab to a boot camp for robots, where a platoon's worth of the semiautonomous mechanical species will be tested to see if they can be all they can be. Next month, the Pentagon is hosting a $3.5 USD million, international competition that will pit robot against robot in an obstacle course designed to test their physical prowess, agility, and even their awareness and cognition. Galvanized by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power disaster in 2011, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — the Pentagon's band of mad scientists that have developed the "artificial spleen," bullets that can change course midair and the Internet — has invested nearly $100 USD million into developing robots that could head into disaster zones off limits to humans…"
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Those who are concerned on where all of this is heading are too late …. the genie is already out of the bottle.(smile) Amicalement
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| Ironwolf | 16 May 2015 11:00 p.m. PST |
Am I the only one who would watch a reality tv show about the robot boot camp! lol |
| Tankrider | 17 May 2015 6:51 a.m. PST |
We've already seen how this all ends.. and it's "badly!" Stop Skynet now before it's too late! :) |
| cosmicbank | 17 May 2015 7:13 a.m. PST |
Then where is my flying "Jet on" car, |
 Legion 4  | 17 May 2015 11:32 a.m. PST |
Just so they remember Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics … link |
| Tango01 | 17 May 2015 2:40 p.m. PST |
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| Stryderg | 17 May 2015 8:40 p.m. PST |
@ Legion 4, don't worry, your name has already been noted some robot's database. When they decide to take over, they'll make sure you're not around to notice. I, however, welcome our new robot overlords. :) |
| Coelacanth1938 | 17 May 2015 9:28 p.m. PST |
I remember back in 2004 when anti-war protestors claimed they saw dragonflies flying in formation over them. |
| Legion 4 | 18 May 2015 7:23 a.m. PST |
@ Legion 4, don't worry, your name has already been noted some robot's database. When they decide to take over, they'll make sure you're not around to notice. OH NOOOOO !!!!!  But on other threads I repeatedly say back when I was a Mech Company Cdr. That I wish I had a couple of T2s with each Squad ! That has to count for something ?!? |
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