Elaine Supkis on EATR: ENERGETICALLY AUTONOMOUS TACTICAL ROBOT. This is a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Project (DARPA Contract W31P4Q-08-C-0292a). Supkis blog-entry is based on a presentation of the project made 9 April, 2009, by
Bill Joy [quoted from Wired 8.04]: "A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control." --. " Uncontrolled self-replication in these newer technologies runs [...]a risk of substantial damage in the physical world.
I often find myself quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald when I write about conspiracy theory, who said that "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time." It's an ability that no explorer of the oute
NWC is a group of academics, researchers and media professionals that enquire effects of the new kinds of war technologies. The group was born in the third quarter of 2006 after Israel-Lebanon conflict.
"The Boeing X-37 (Advanced Technology Demonstrator) is an American unpiloted spaceplane operated by the U.S. Air Force for orbital spaceflight missions. It is a reusable robotic spacecraft that is a 120 percent–scaled derivative of the X-40A." Also htt
09TELAVIV2757 2009-12-22 09:09 SECRET Embassy Tel Aviv: MOD Political-Military Chief Amos Gilad described recent Russian cooperation on Iran as encouraging, but expressed reservations that Russia would join in any sanctions against Iran. He explained
After 225 days in orbit the Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane touched down Friday at 1:16 a.m. local time at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was only the second fully automated re-entry and runway landing in the history of space flight.
Nyhet fr 2007. Egentligen får Barnett och hans forskarlag på Delaware-universitetet en stor del av sina pengar från USA:s institut för försvarsforskning, Darpa. Militären vill minska bördorna för amerikanska soldater i fält, till exempel i Irak. I dag slä