Certainly not every robotics project should be taken seriously, but talking trash about the Navy’s firefighting robot project is both dumb and irresponsible. All this time I thought I was the only incompetent one around here…
We’ve all heard about DARPA’s grand robot challenge, but seems like Boston Dynamics already has this one in the bag. I mean come on, these guys have developed what are effectively artificial autonomic responses in machines – recognize, yo!
Predators and Packbots already function as primitive avatars for pilots and bomb squads, and DARPA’s new Avatar project aims to turn up the resolution. Delineating the consciousness container could get trickier…
The U.S. is going to seriously cut ground forces (Army & Marines, particularly). The monkey pony show of politics calls it budget cuts and such, but they neglect to point out that grunts are being obviated by bots, man.
In addition to raining down death (or photography) from above, WarBots will now be dropping cargo as well. With this newly deployed robot helicopter.
It transforms. It’s real. Just need to get the locomotion squared away. Circled away?
Most humanoid robots are just a set of legs with big flat feet balancing a dead-center torso doing an awkward slow-mo hula dance. But watch PETMAN. Really watch. It’s like witnessing a birth.