cybernetics

The full name was 'The All-State Automated System for the Gathering and Processing of Information for the Accounting, Planning and Governance of the National Economy, USSR' (OGAS being a Russian acronym for the first four words). It has been described as the 'Soviet Internet'. It might be more...

Given the distinct trend that real world events have taken lately, I thought it was long since time for a dedicated cyberpunk thread. For both real world examples as well as the fictional (e.g. universes such as The Sprawl [Neuromancer], Shadowrun, Cyberpunk 2020, etc.). I'll start off things...

I looked for any previous posts on swarming quadcopters but I didn't find anything. Kind of odd that nobody has posted a video on those. Here is the Navy's rendition of swarming drones. At the 38 second mark the video shows a cluster of drones operating in close proximity. This is different...

http://asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Science/Tech/Japan-aims-to-launch-self-piloting-ships-by-2025 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40219682

Sorry it's a UUV https://news.usni.org/2017/04/04/navy-splits-lduuv-into-rapid-acquisition-program-at-peo-lcs-rd-effort-at-onr

NASA's Next Mars Rover Progresses Toward 2020 Launch http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1922 http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/?ImageID=7909

RM released this late last year. MGCS=Main ground combat system= the supposed Leo III MBT.

Since we don't seem to have a dedicated thread for this already: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/10/remember-eatr-the-military-robot-that-was-supposed-to-eat-humans/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/09/eatr_beta/

To make up for the fact that I think I killed BobbyMikes future soldier tech thread :-[ , I'd like to open this modified version. This is for future soldier kit from helmets to boots, from NVG to camo....no exoskeletons stuff that has it's own thread now.

http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eastern-arsenal/are-weaponized-crab-walker-robots-future-chinese-land-wars ORIGINAL CAPTIONS FOR IMAGES BELOW:

Just wondering, would it be by any chance possible to set up a new 'Robotics and Cybernetics' board in the Research Topics section at the present time? It would be especially handy for topics that don't fit neatly into Aerospace, Military, or any of the boards over in the Secret Projects section...

"Make it so: VTT and Rolls-Royce imagine the ship's bridge of 2025" by David Szondy March 17, 2014 Source: http://www.gizmag.com/future-ship-bridge-2025/31250/

"Second 4-Star General Talks About Replacing Soldiers With Robots" Source: http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2014/01/second-4-star-general-talks-about-replacing-soldiers-with-robots/

...A wig. http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/21/5129554/bizarre-sony-smartwig-patent-turns-wigs-into-wearable-computing-device

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuMIrHlAf2Q#t=23s

Paging Mr. David Mace, Paging Mr. Greg Bear. Via Slashdot: DARPA wants to dot ocean floor with network of robotic pods that can spy, explore (NETWORKWORLD) http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/01/11.aspx...

Video at this link - http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/03/high-speed-robot-hand-demonstrates-dexterity-and-skillful-manipulation Think of the military applications for robotic technologies able to be this dexterous and this fast. Humans can think awfully fast but are limited by our physical...

SecNav Posits Drone Ships Fueled by Sediment At a breakfast meeting with DC-based defense reporters today, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus (now clearly not in contention to be SecDef) sketched a future force of unmanned ships pulling power from the sea floor. Office of Naval Research just did...

Thought this might be topical in light of current events. Both of these series were developed in the early 2000's by Hitachi for use in nuclear accidents. However they appear to have fallen victim to to political shenanigans shortly thereafter. The [final?] SWAN prototype ended up (ironically)...

Till now allmost all drones are completely man-made. That could change, at least in the field of micro drones, according to an article in the december issue of the German magazine "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" (Spectrum Of Science). Several teams of scientists are working on a conversion of...