Some Japanese patients shun robot helpers, throwing high-tech future of elder care into doubt
In Japan, robot-led weddings, robot factory workers and even squeaky robot pets are all fine and good. But in-home helper bots, which are the main goal of many robotics research projects, are anything but widespread, even in that robo-friendly country. Apparently old people and sick people, even in Japan, still prefer that human touch. Rather…
Pentagon Wants to Give Troops Terminator Vision
No more will soldiers’ vision be limited to the socket-embedded spheres that God intended. The Pentagon wants troops to see dangers behind them, as well as figure out whether an object a kilometer away is a walking stick or AK-47. In a solicitation released today, Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out research branch, unveiled the Soldier Centric…
Weaponized weather, both real and fictional
Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG told us about the lost Nazi weather station in present-day Canada. Today, he fills us in on some real-life stories of weaponized climatology. https://gizmodo.com/the-annals-of-weather-warfare-5695028 A forthcoming game called Elements of War takes weaponized weather-control as its central theme, “where armies manipulate the forces of nature to rain down destruction on their…
