Now it has reached Mars orbit it might as well have its own thread.
View: https://twitter.com/PRCMarsRover/status/1358403478284947459
View: https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1359490712786460673
Designed for fun
The Pursuit Bot, with the look of one six-legged yellow spider and the size of a cat, designed to neutralize dangerous lifeforms operating in industrial environments.
Mark-9 was built of electroactive polymers and carbon composites, its outer surface coated with graphene...
Came across this while researching something totally different. This project was first proposed by Dr. Frank Malina (one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in late 1960 as an ideal candidate for the first activity of the just formed Academy of Astronautics (now known as the...
First directly mentioned on SPF back in 2017:
Most recent development:
https://news.usni.org/2019/03/13/navy-wants-ten-ship-3b-unmanned-experimental-ghost-fleet
Likely related in some way to the CARACaS program.
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...
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
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/
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...
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a210098.pdf
A June 1989 report jointly authored by the Committee on Advanced Robotics for Air Force Operations (Air Force Studies Board),
and the Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (National Research Council)
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...
From Wired.com:
Navy’s Newest Robot Is a Mechanized Firefighter
By Katie Drummond March 8, 2012 | 12:56 pm | Categories: robots
Meet SAFFiR: Embedded sensors allow the 'bot to see through smoke, and sophisticated upper-body agility let the 'bot throw fire-squelching grenades. Illo: Naval...
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...
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)...
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