Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Skydio: Drones With ‘Most Advanced AI Ever’ Coming Soon To Your Local Police Department
March 3rd, 2021Via: Forbes: It claims to be shipping the most advanced AI-powered drone ever built: a quadcopter that costs as little as $1,000, which can latch on to targets and follow them, dodging all sorts of obstacles and capturing everything on high-quality video. Skydio claims that its software can even predict a target’s next move, be […]
The Navy Plans To Launch Swarms Of Aerial Drones From Unmanned Submarines And Ships
March 3rd, 2021Via: The War Zone: The U.S. Navy has handed a contract to Raytheon for versions of its Coyote small unmanned aerial vehicle configured as loitering munitions, also known as “suicide drones.” The service says that it specifically wants them to support the development of unmanned surface and underwater vehicles as platforms to launch drone swarms, […]
Google’s Eric Schmidt & The Artificial Intelligence Military-Industrial Complex
February 25th, 2021Via: The Last American Vagabond: In late January, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), or the AI Commission, released a draft of their upcoming report to Congress, rejecting calls to ban AI-powered autonomous weapons, characterized by critics as “killer robots”. While the AI Commission did briefly address privacy and civil liberties concerns, they […]
Army Special Forces Wants Lasers to Shoot Down Drones
February 11th, 2021Via: Nextgov: The Army wants to protect Special Forces operators from unmanned aerial systems—better known as drones—by shooting them out of the sky with high-energy weapons—better known as lasers. The Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office added a new section to its broad agency announcement vehicle for cutting-edge technologies, putting out a call under […]
Robot Motherships To Launch Drone Swarms From Sea, Underwater, Air And Near-Space
February 5th, 2021Via: Forbes: Last week Louisiana-based shipbuilder Metal Shark announced that the U.S. Marine Corps had selected them to develop a Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessel (LRUSV), an 11-meter robot boat capable of operating autonomously and launching loitering munitions to attack targets at sea and on land. The unmanned boat is just the latest of a […]
Starbucks, Microsoft and Costco to Help with COVID Vaccine Rollout in Washington State [???]
February 4th, 2021I queued this Last American Vagabond video to the start of the discussion about this extremely bizarre situation. Via: Government Technology: In an effort to streamline the delivery of Washington state’s COVID-19 vaccines, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Monday the state’s plan to create the Washington State Vaccine Command and Coordination Center to meet […]
Spot’s Got an Arm
February 2nd, 2021Update: Meet Spot’s Expanded Product Line — Via: Boston Dynamics:
60 Minutes: Chinese Government Is Trying to Collect Americans’ DNA
February 1st, 2021Via: CBS: For all the polarization that grips Washington, here’s a source of rare consensus: the emerging threat of China’s push to acquire our health care data, including the DNA of American citizens. U.S. officials tell us the communist regime’s aggressive collection of our most personal information presents a danger both to national security and […]
Company Thinks “Social Robots” Needed During Pandemic
January 26th, 2021I only posted this because the video is so cringe inducing that you shouldn’t miss it. Via: Reuters: “Social robots like me can take care of the sick or elderly,” Sophia says as she conducts a tour of her lab in Hong Kong. “I can help communicate, give therapy and provide social stimulation, even in […]
Army Is Working on Frankenbots with Living Tissue
January 19th, 2021Via: Federal News Service: The thought of living tissue and machinery meshed together brings up images of grotesque cyborgs and far-future sci-fi films, but at the Army Research Laboratory a robot with living, organic muscles may not be that far off. ARL’s Combat Capabilities Development Command is teaming up with universities in North Carolina to […]
