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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRan across this video from MIT robotics lab.
I find this fascinating.
Automation technology is evolving very rapidly and will impact our lives more and perhaps sooner than we can imagine.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)bighart
(1,565 posts)drooling over weaponizing something like that.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)The idea is to use these robots as pack animals. They don't need to be fed and can carry heavier loads without rest, so long as there is a fuel/energy source.
They're regarded more as an adjunct to the military member as opposed to a "weapon" but they do have battlefield utility.
There has always been a nexus between DOD and the MIT labs--they have an office right near Hanscom.
And then there's this: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/07/26/mit-tech-leader-tapped-for-new-military-lab/7rJ5AVs5oQ85xTPlhr4RgO/story.html
bighart
(1,565 posts)I have some experience with robotics and automation having run a manufacturing plant.
This kind of stuff is advancing rapidly now.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Robots will enable the elderly to stay in their own homes with their own personal electronic manservant, so they say, fairly soon!
Japan has been doing a lot of work on that end of things.
Orrex
(63,216 posts)randome
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MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Or fetching me a beer from the fridge while I work on my mother f***ing deck for the 16th f***ing time because those sh*t-head groundhogs can't stop their f***ing idiotic attempt to dig their a**es at fifteen thousand f***ing square foot abode under my mother f***ing patio! One more f***ing time, and I will use fire on their a**es.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)bighart
(1,565 posts)Spinal Tap baby!
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)bighart
(1,565 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Yavin4
(35,442 posts)bighart
(1,565 posts)sci-fi becoming reality is always fascinating.
Far cry from Lucy and Ethel on the chocolate assembly line.