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DARPA reveals Avatar program, robot soldiers incoming!!!!!! | |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 4528419 United States02/17/2012 12:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | These robots should be smart and agile enough to do the dirty work of war, Darpa notes. That includes the “room clearing, sentry control [and] combat casualty recovery.” And all at the bidding of their human partner. [link to www.wired.com] |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 10905376  Portugal02/17/2012 12:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | not bad, sorry to say but the Japanese design is way better and more advanced. [link to www.youtube.com] |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 4528419 United States02/17/2012 01:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | not bad, sorry to say but the Japanese design is way better and more advanced. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 10905376 [link to www.youtube.com] LOL, when is it not? Thanks for the cool vid!  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 10905376 Portugal02/17/2012 01:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | not bad, sorry to say but the Japanese design is way better and more advanced. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 10905376 [link to www.youtube.com] LOL, when is it not? Thanks for the cool vid! NP,  |
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 User ID: 1009022 United States02/17/2012 01:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Trick is type the title in youtube search, and look for the one that is NOT embedded in the URL. Then it will post. Last Edited by SpaceCommand on 02/17/2012 01:18 PM "With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things." William Wordsworth And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Lincoln's economic advisor Henry C. Carey explained the universal issue in his 1851 Harmony of Interests: "Two systems are before the world.... One looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, and barbarism; the other to increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action, and civilization. One looks towards universal war; the other towards universal peace. One is the English system; the other ... the American system, for ... elevating while equalizing the condition of man throughout the world." "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 10401141 United States02/17/2012 01:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The generation of gamers that are currently growing up can adapt to controlling any number of different configurations. And they do so with an almost uncanny instinct. They'll be werewolves one second, running on all four, and tanks the next. Only to switch to MW or BF and be regular humans. It would seem natural that the DARPA people, who aren't obtuse enough to think inside the box of "terminator" would be creating a robot that has more resemblance to a transformer than a human. I'll be willing to bet that we won't be seeing the Darpa bipedal... the real avatar will look nothing like a human. |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 4528419 United States02/17/2012 04:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Now... if we are going to equip the gaming generation with an "avatar".. why limit it to a bipedal with the restrictions that that entails? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 10401141 The generation of gamers that are currently growing up can adapt to controlling any number of different configurations. And they do so with an almost uncanny instinct. They'll be werewolves one second, running on all four, and tanks the next. Only to switch to MW or BF and be regular humans. It would seem natural that the DARPA people, who aren't obtuse enough to think inside the box of "terminator" would be creating a robot that has more resemblance to a transformer than a human. I'll be willing to bet that we won't be seeing the Darpa bipedal... the real avatar will look nothing like a human. I completely agree, but I think there will be many different kinds of avatars. Ones that fly and motor around on the ground, "mirco" insect-like bots, amphibious bots, and fully submergible bots. This is simply the first step. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7063795 United States02/18/2012 12:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They got the exact replica of the Terminator that can run University made it and then it was all taken down years ago from public eyes. It was the real deal. Gov will never tell the public how far advanced THEY REALLY ARE. They just show us the old stuff TERMINATOR IS REAL people ! I warned this ten years ago. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7106716 United States02/18/2012 12:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you are controlling a robot I think it would be easier to kill someone because you wouldn't really be there and have to really look at them in the eye. I mean, it wouldn't really feel real. A person would be detached from actual combat. Also, anyone could probably learn to control the robot. They might even train chimps to do it or have a shadow government where they have children raised to do it. Anyway, don't expect any sort of forgiveness or sympathy or any sort of human emotions from these things. The people they will have controlling them will become as mindless and heartless as the robots they control perhaps. |
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