DARPA reveals Avatar program, robot soldiers incoming DARPA, the bleeding-edge research wing of the United States Department of Defense, has revealed that it will spend millions of dollars on a project called “Avatar.” If you’ve seen the movie of the same name — the highest-grossing movie of all time — let me put your mind at rest: DARPA isn’t looking to genetically engineer blue-skinned aliens that humans can control; no, they’re developing robots. In the words of DARPA itself, the Avatar program will work on “interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bipedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.” In other words, DARPA wants to develop the walking equivalent of an unarmed aerial vehicle; a bipedal robot drone where the controlling soldier is hundreds or thousands of miles away from war front.
BINA48 BINA48, a robot owned by Martine Rothblatt's Terasem Movement, Incorporated (TMI),[6] is designed to test two hypotheses concerning the ability to download a person's consciousness into a non-biological or nanotech body after combining detailed data about a person with future consciousness software. History[edit] Hanson created BINA48 in his Plano, Texas laboratory. The robot is kept at Terasem Movement, Inc.'
Platform Adopted in Convention, May 2012, Las Vegas, NV Download as a PDF As adopted in Convention, May 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada DARPA Program Aims to Help Counselors Spot Signs of Stress, PTSD Every day, 22 veterans commit suicide—a startling number prompting experts to probe for methods to curb the national epidemic. Officials are fielding a new program, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which can help experts assess the psychological state of troops and veterans early on and possibly get them the help needed before it’s too late. The Detection and Computational Analysis of Psychological Signals (DCAPS) program joins the growing inventory of measures to combat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicides. It has tools to analyze facial expressions, body gestures and speech, both content and delivery, and inform experts on a user’s psychological state of mind or alert them to behavioral changes that could indicate problems. “We are now beginning to bring objective assessment to hard quantifiable data to make data-driven analysis, to come up with the indicators of distress,” explains Col.
LifeNaut What you should know: NAME: Bina48 CREATED BY:Hanson Robotics, Houston Texas for Dr. Martine Rothblatt, Founder of the Terasem Movement The Book of Enoch, Section I From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament H.R. Charles Oxford: The Clarendon Press [Chapter 1] 1 The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be 2 living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. DARPA's Autonomous Microdrones Designed to Patrol Inside Houses by Nicholas West As drone expert, P.W. Singer said, "At this point, it doesn't really matter if you are against the technology, because it's coming." According to Singer, "The miniaturization of drones is where it really gets interesting. You can use these things anywhere, put them anyplace, and the target will never even know they're being watched."
Boston Dynamics: Dedicated to the Science and Art of How Things Move. LittleDog - The Legged Locomotion Learning Robot LittleDog is a quadruped robot designed for research on learning locomotion. Scientists at leading institutions use LittleDog to probe the fundamental relationships among motor learning, dynamic control, perception of the environment, and rough-terrain locomotion. LittleDog is used at MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, USC, Univ. Pennsylvania and IHMC as part of a DARPA-funded program on advanced robotics. LittleDog has four legs, each powered by three electric motors.
Glenn Canady's Blog Reality: 300 mpg from a normal production car - the Volkswagen XL1 Jim Stone April 5, 2014 You won't find the 300 MPG Volkswagen XL1 in an American showroom, in fact it has even been denied a tour of America because it is too efficient for the American public to be made widely aware of, and oil profits are too high in America with the status… Continue Added by Glenn Canady on April 8, 2014 at 11:36am — No Comments