Killer Robots

The US DoD continues down the path of recreating the Terminator plot line, but in real life. Can someone get them a Netflix account?

Called the “Ember,” the robot runs on reversible treads and has two flippers on one end to get it over obstacles and right itself. It’s got a tiny camera mounted on one side, and an antenna mount. It’s even got its own Facebook photo album.

It’s small, it’s sturdy and someday every soldier may have one.

It’s been made under a Pentagon contract to develop “LANdroids,” small, automatically networking communications and surveillance robots.

Yeah! Networked robots!
Yeah! LANdroids!
Right, keep telling yourself that this won’t go horribly awry.
I’ll just go find Sarah and John and head for the hills.

Another piece of the puzzle comes together as a bunch of scientists in Switzerland invented robots that "lie" to each other to get food. Seriously, why not just give them the planet now and save us the trouble…

According to Reuters columnist Bernd Debusmann, "military robots and their rapidly increasing numbers" and at a conference this Month, Brookings scholar Peter Singer said "Science fiction is moving to the battlefield. The future is upon us."

Sometimes I wonder if I’m the last sane person on Earth.

Seriously?
SERIOUSLY?!@?

In what universe is this a good idea? Let’s make humans food for robots! Freaking vampire robots, that’s what we need!

I think I saw this movie. It was called ‘The Matrix’.

Yeast cells feeding on the glucose in human blood might one day power implants such as pacemakers. A living source of power that is able to regenerate itself would eliminate the need for regular operations to replace batteries.
A team at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, has created tiny microbial fuel cells by encapsulating yeast cells in a flexible capsule. They went on to show the fuel cells can generate power from a drop of human blood plasma.

The Japanese always try to make the robots look cool, just look at the names they’ve picked for this one. But really, this thing’s just one step closer to cyborgs.

Is it me, or does this look like a hybrid of RoboCop and Voltron characters?

One way or another, the Terminators are coming. Check it out:

They have no fear, they never tire, they are not upset when the soldier next to them gets blown to pieces. Their morale doesn’t suffer by having to do, again and again, the jobs known in the military as the Three Ds – dull, dirty and dangerous.

From the article in Wired:

Stopping the pirates of Somalia hasn’t been easy. But when the navies of the world have repelled or killed the hijackers, it’s often involved three elements: helicopters, drones, and trained snipers. The U.S. Army is working on a weapon which combines all three.

This should go awesomely.

Scientists in Japan have invented a self-aware baby robot seal that reacts to human voice and touch. They insist it helps “heal” the elderly. I’m convinced this is a recon team.

I would have to say the title of this post speaks for it self. Sometimes saying WTF just isn’t enough. Here’s a link to the article…

Let’s combine my two favorite predators, snake and robots.

Because, if you weren’t afraid of one, now you can be afraid of both.