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Cyborg insects 'born' in DARPA project

"Insects with modified body structures and embedded micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have survived to adulthood"

The pre-cursor: US Army funds $10m bat-droid

"One might ask whether the US Army really truly needs another spyfly, cool as the notion of a vibration-harvesting ornithopter gargoyle bat-bot might be

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One day it will carry back the wounded in battle . And given that soldiers already link emotionally and get attached to the Talon bomb-disposal robots, one wonders the reaction these will cause in the future.

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Willow Garage is a conceptually interesting company.

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Aussie kills self, employing "Suicide Robot"

Downloaded plans for robot off the internet.

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I don't know if that really qualifies as a robot. Fucked up though.

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Ah, Doctor Phil(ip Nitschke) strikes again!

I'm still wondering where he got a .22 semi-auto pist- oh. Wait. Gold Coast. Probably borrowed it of his real estate agent.

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Brain-based Devices

It looks like maybe a robot—R2D2 almost. But it isn’t a robot, because it’s not run by an artificial intelligence [AI] program of logic. It’s run by an artificial brain modeled on the vertebrate or mammalian brain. Where it differs from a real brain aside from being simulated or emulated in a computer is in the number of neurons.

What is a neuron in your BBD?
The ones I’ve been talking about so far are like neuronal groups, and they usually are the order of 100 equivalent neurons. We look at what are called mean firing-rate models. You average the firing rate of a number of neurons, which is a reflection of synaptic change. We also work with spiking neurons [neurons that are communicating by electrically activating one another through action potentials]. We have a mathematician here, Eugene Izhikevich, who’s famous for having devised algorithms that give you behavior identical to the real thing. If you recorded from the neurons of a living animal and compared that to Eugene’s spikes, you couldn’t tell which one came from the animal and which one came from his algorithm. The responses are exactly like those of neurons.
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Most complex brain-based devices presently have almost a million neurons and maybe up to 10 million or so synapses. [There are at least 100 billion neurons in the human brain.] But what is interesting about BBDs is that they are embedded. They’re in the world and sample the real world that we have.
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What are you working on now?
We have a new BBD called Darwin 12. It has legs and wheels and a very complex structure, and it’s able to navigate in unknown circumstances. Each one of its leg wheels has almost 100 different sensors of different kinds. This is the first time we’re fooling around with the body. It can lift its legs up. We will eventually have it climbing stairs. What we want to see is what happens when you have this kind of variation in the phenotype—the actual body shape—and how that affects how the brain works.

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Non-Answer on Armed Robot Pullout From Iraq Reveals Fragile Bot Industry

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This is how fragile the robotics industry is: Last year, three armed ground bots were deployed to Iraq. But the remote-operated SWORDS units were almost immediately pulled off the battlefield, before firing a single shot at the enemy. Here at the conference, the Army’s Program Executive Officer for Ground Forces, Kevin Fahey, was asked what happened to SWORDS. After all, no specific reason for the 11th-hour withdrawal ever came from the military or its contractors at Foster-Miller. Fahey’s answer was vague, but he confirmed that the robots never opened fire when they weren’t supposed to. His understanding is that “the gun started moving when it was not intended to move.” In other words, the SWORDS swung around in the wrong direction, and the plug got pulled fast. No humans were hurt, but as Fahey pointed out, “once you’ve done something that’s really bad, it can take 10 or 20 years to try it again.”

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The phrase "mouth writing cheques your arse can't catch" is never better applied than when it's applied to any Tech company, Newro.

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Originally posted by Justy:
Since Gromit's last attempt sank under the weight of time and other discussions, here's another thread.

Scientists demonstrate a laser-guided robot with a Mac mini for a brain.

This should be a thread [i]for[/i[ robots, not about robots.

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Have you accessed your motherboard lately?

It's official, ube.

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Building the Real Iron Man

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Utah. A secret mountain lab. Software engineer Rex Jameson backs into a headless metal suit that's hanging from a steel I-beam by a thick rubber cord. He clicks into the aluminum boots, tightens belts across his legs and waist, and slides his arms through backpack-like straps, gripping handles where hands would be. It looks as easy as slipping into an overcoat.

Then he moves, and the machine comes to life, shadowing his every motion. He raises his fists and starts firing sharp jabs while bouncing from one foot to the other. He's not quite Muhammad Ali, but he's wearing 150 pounds and he looks light.

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Weird little recombinant thingy.

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Punk-loving robots pogo for science

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Punk-loving robots pogo for science

Many people in the music press react just the same way.

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Madness!!!!!

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Pentagon Begins Fake Cat Brain Project (Updated), via wired

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The Pentagon's crash program to create an artificial brain is just about up and running. And, if it all goes as planned, we could see an electronic chip that mimics the "function, size, and power consumption" of a cat's cortex some time in the next decade.

Darpa, the Defense Department's way-out research arm, recently tapped is in late-stage negotiations with Malibu's HRL Laboratories to spearhead its Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics ("SyNAPSE") program. The goal: Build a chip with a "neuroscience-inspired architecture that can address a wide range of cognitive abilities --

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Aussie kills self, employing "Suicide Robot"

Downloaded plans for robot off the internet.

Kill All Humans! Kill All Humans! /Jhonny 5

And then there's bender putting money into a suicide machine lol. People are crazy.

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