Navy’s newest robot is a mechanized, grenade-tossing firefighter
Add another eerily lifelike robot to the military’s rapidly expanding android army. This one is, of all things, a mechanical firefighter. And not only can it climb ladders like its flesh-and-blood counterparts, it’s designed to interact with human handlers in a kind of human/robot bucket brigade. Developed by the Naval Research Laboratory, the Shipboard Autonomous…
Wireless devices swim through your bloodstream and fix you up, Fantastic Voyage style
Implantable medical devices will eventually dispense drugs, get rid of blood clots and perform micro-surgeries inside our bodies, but powering them could be problematic. If the point is to have minimally invasive gadgets keeping tabs on our health, cutting patients open to swap out their batteries is not an ideal situation. A new micro device…
Darpa’s Magic Plan: ‘Battlefield Illusions’ to Mess With Enemy Minds
Arthur C. Clarke once famously quipped that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” So perhaps it was inevitable that the Pentagon’s extreme technology arm would eventually start acting like magicians – and try to create illusions on the front lines. Top image: Inflatable army truck, via Buzz Museum In its new budget, unveiled…
Robots will steal your job, but that’s okay: How to Survive the Coming Economic Collapse
You are about to become obsolete. You think that you are special, unique, and that whatever it is that you are doing is impossible to replace. You are wrong. As we speak, millions of algorithms created by computer scientists are frantically running on servers all over the world with one sole purpose: do whatever we…
