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LeopoldS

The Army's Bold Plan to Turn Soldiers Into Telepaths | Machine-Brain Connections | DISC... - 0 views

discovermagazine.com/...n-turn-soldiers-into-telepaths

bio technology BMI

shared by LeopoldS on 25 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 25 Jul 11
     
    "The mind reader is Gerwin Schalk, a 39-year-old biomedical scientist and a leading expert on brain-computer interfaces at the New York State Department of Health's Wads­worth Center at Albany Medical College. The 28Austrian-born Schalk, along with a handful of other researchers, is part of a $6.3 million U.S. Army project to establish the basic science required to build a thought helmet-a device that can detect and transmit the unspoken speech of soldiers, allowing them to communicate with one another silently." ...
  • Ma Ru on 01 Aug 11
ESA ACT

Swedish Armed Forces - Recruitment Campaign - 0 views

forsvar.fileflat.com/english

Fun recruitment army game online

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    ESA did not accept you to be an astronaut? Check if you at least can be a Swedish Army officer... HEADPHONES REQUIRED!!!
johannessimon81

Norwegian army driving tank using Oculus Rift - 1 views

www.tu.no/...ured-vehicle-using-oculus-rift

VR Oculus_Rift tanks space technology

shared by johannessimon81 on 06 May 14 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 06 May 14
     
    I guess it might also make sense to put a camera on an extension to look around corners without having to advance the vehicle to where it can be shot at... ?: Could the Oculus be used to let humans control humanoid robots? I guess so. Could humans perform experiments using such robots? Probably. Could Oculus be used to control these robots on the ISS? I guess so. --> Finally we eliminated the last need for humans in space!!! :-D (Maybe we could replace humans on Earth with robots that control one another through Oculus Rift...)
  • Paul N on 06 May 14
     
    Even cooler would be to have like a swarm of drones around the tank to act as a sensor array and look around corners for you.
Francesco Biscani

How to quadruple your productivity with an army of student interns - 6 views

blog.ksplice.com/...oductivity-with-an-intern-army

inf

shared by Francesco Biscani on 13 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 13 Mar 10
     
    Potential lessons for out own trainee program?
  • LeopoldS on 16 Mar 10
     
    well - part of it we already do ... e.g. : (did you see the picture in the report?) "Tolerate a little crowding. It took a little creativity to suddenly find a dozen new workspaces in our two-room office. Fortunately, we've found that a room can always fit one more person-and by induction, you can fit as many as you need. (All those years we spent proving math theorems came in handy after all.) "
Juxi Leitner

Army heli-Weeble hops to avoid rubble trouble - tech - 18 September 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...s-to-avoid-rubble-trouble.html

flying robotics hopping

shared by Juxi Leitner on 21 Sep 09 - Cached
  • is a rotor-powered, bottom-heavy, self-righting vehicle that spends most of its time on the ground, thus conserving battery power. Instead of flying around, it hops, using a pair of contra-rotating rotors (to avoid the need for a tail rotor) mounted on an aluminium base. All this is encased in a spherical cage made of strong carbon-fibre spars (see diagram).
ESA ACT

Nano Air Vehicle Floats Like Maple Seed: Science Fiction in the News - 0 views

technovelgy.com/...Science-Fiction-News.asp

BIO aerodynamics

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    As usual, the Army does it...
ESA ACT

US Army toyed with telepathic ray gun - tech - 21 March 2008 - New Scientist Tech - 0 views

technology.newscientist.com/...d-with-telepathic-ray-gun.html

BIO BMI wireless SPS neuroscience WPT

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    are these all nutheads or is there some truth in the comments to this article??
Thijs Versloot

Newcomers joke in the Australian Army? - 2 views

www.nydailynews.com/...t-unsolvable-article-1.1385018

fun

shared by Thijs Versloot on 01 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 01 Jul 13
     
    "Australia's Royal Air Force has been left red-faced after a job ad asked applicants to solve a complex math problem was revealed to be unsolvable. Bosses posted the puzzle in a bid to attract the country's best minds to its ranks"
johannessimon81

Google combines skycrane, VTOL and lifting wing to make drone deliveries - 6 views

www.wired.com/...ffort-to-build-delivery-drones

technology drone_delivery VTOL skycrane FUN soundtrack

shared by johannessimon81 on 30 Aug 14 - No Cached
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  • johannessimon81 on 30 Aug 14
     
    Nice video featuring the technology. Plus it comes with a good soundtrack! Google's project wing uses a lifting wing concept (more fuel efficient than normal airplane layouts and MUCH more efficient than quadrocopters) but it equips the plane with engines strong enough to hover in a nose up position, allowing vertical landing and takeoff. For the delivery of packages the drone does not even need to land - it can lower them on a wire - much like the skycrane concept used to deliver the Curiosity rover on Mars. Not sure if the skycrane is really necessary but it is certainly cool. Anyways, the video is great for its soundtrack alone! ;-P
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  • Paul N on 31 Aug 14
     
    could we just use genetic algorithms to evolve these shapes and layouts? :P
  • Ma Ru on 31 Aug 14
     
    > Not sure if the skycrane is really necessary but it is certainly cool. I think apart from coolness using a skycrane helps keep the rotating knives away from the recipient...
  • Thijs Versloot on 01 Sep 14
     
    Honest question, are we ever going to see this in practice? I mean besides some niche application somewhere, isn't it fundamentally flawed or do I need to keep my window opened on the 3rd floor without a balcony when I ordered something from DX? Its pretty cool yes, but practical?
  • Guido de Croon on 02 Sep 14
     
    Package delivery is indeed more complicated than it may seem at first sight, although solutions are possible for instance by restricting delivery to distribution centers. What we really need of course is some really efficient and robust AI to navigate without any problems in urban areas : ) The hybrid is interesting since it combines the advantage of a Vertical Takeoff and Landing (and hover), and a wing for more efficient forward flight. Challenges lie in the control of the vehicle under any angle and all that this entails also for higher levels of control. Our lab has first used this concept a few years ago for the DARPA UAVforge challenge, and we had two hybrids in our entry last year for the IMAV 2013 (for some shaky images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7XgRK7pMoU ).
  • Thijs Versloot on 04 Sep 14
     
    Fair enough, but even if you consider advanced/robust/efficient AI, why would you use a drone? Do we envision hundreds of drones above our heads in the street instead of UPS vans, or postmen, considering delivers letters might be more easily achievable. I am not so sure if personal delivery will take this route. On the other hand, if the system would work smoothly, I can image that I'm send a mail with the question whether I'm home (or they might know already from my personal GPS tracker) and then notify me that they are launching my DVD and it will come crashing into my door in 5min.
  • Paul N on 08 Sep 14
     
    I'm more curios how they're planning to keep people from stealing the drones. I could do with a drone army myself and having cheap amazon or google drones flying about sounds like a decent source.
Nicholas Lan

The Big Sleep: How Hibernation Could Overcome Life-Threatening Injury - 1 views

gizmodo.com/...all

BIO hibernation

shared by Nicholas Lan on 06 May 14 - No Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 06 May 14
     
    Human hibernation again. A group in groningen that started 6 years ago and a study under the US army that will do some limited trials with humans apparently.
LeopoldS

Video: Army's Robot-Man Walks Like the Real Thing | Danger Room | Wired.com - 2 views

www.wired.com/...-man-walks-like-the-real-thing

robotics defence

shared by LeopoldS on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 27 Oct 09
     
    somehow don't like this guy ...
  • Juxi Leitner on 27 Oct 09
     
    boston dynamics again, kinda scary again.
Francesco Biscani

Tom Sawyer, whitewashing fences, and building communities online - 3 views

darkmattermatters.com/...nd-building-communities-online

open innovation open source

shared by Francesco Biscani on 11 Nov 09 - Cached
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  • If you are looking to ideas like open source or social media as simple means to get what you want for your company, it’s time to rethink your community strategy.
  • I’ve talked to people at companies who are considering “open sourcing” their product because they think there is an army of people out there who will jump at the chance to build their products for them. Many of these people go on to learn tough but valuable lessons in building community. It’s not that simple.
  • Francesco Biscani on 11 Nov 09
     
    Illuminating article about corporations trying to exploit "open source" and not getting what they want.
  • LeopoldS on 12 Nov 09
     
    I like the red had definition: "To be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way."
  • Juxi Leitner on 12 Nov 09
     
    yeah, it is the same with crowdsourcing in general, when some company "managers" see how much cheaper they could do it but don't understand where it comes from...
aborgg

A New Era in Stretchable Electronics - 1 views

futurism.com/rs-and-stretch-like-an-octopus

stretchable electronics robotic skin conductive

shared by aborgg on 10 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • aborgg on 10 Mar 16
     
    Soft Robots Scientists from Cornell University and the Italian Technology Institute in Pontedera have developed an elastic robotic skin that is able to stretch up to five times its size, change colors, and even detect pressure. The luminescent skin, partly funded by the Army and Air Force's research wings, is comprised of different kinds of specialized silicone, making it flexible and soft.
  • aborgg on 10 Mar 16
     
    related video here: http://imgur.com/gallery/q57U40Y
hannalakk

The Adorable Microbots That Swarm to Build Structures - 2 views

www.wired.com/...that-swarm-to-build-structures

shared by hannalakk on 29 Sep 17 - No Cached
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  • hannalakk on 29 Sep 17
     
    At SRI International in Silicon Valley, researchers have developed perhaps the most impressive microbot army yet: the MicroFactory. It's an ant colony made robotic, with half-millimeter machines zipping around to construct truly impressive structures.
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