Robotics, IA and Informatics
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Microsoft Kinect has been used for some novel hacks , but this is straight out of Ghost In The Shell .
Holy heck, these Japanese hobbyists are building a 12-foot-tall pilotable mech
Informatics
A.I.
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serial experiments lain is an anime which begs to be interpreted (read my review for a basic description of the show). While the story gives us a lot of hints as to what might be going on, nothing is ever explicitly explained.
Robotics
Are these machines making us stupid? Image courtesy of Flickr user aranath
Are Machines Dumbing Us Down? | Innovations
There are as many as 7,000 drones in service; apparently manufacturers are struggling to keep up with demand. Courtesy of Department of Defense.
Drones Get Smarter | Innovations
A lot of my liberal friends are bitterly disappointed with President Barack Obama’s performance in the past three years.
Drone Assassinations Hurt the U.S. More Than They Help Us | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network
UPDATE: 14 OCTOBER : The US Air Force Space Command has confirmed our suspicion (below) that the computer virus that attacked its drone flight control centre at Creech Air force Base, Nevada, was introduced through the use of portable USB hard drives. Though they claim the virus never invaded flight control systems, the episode remains a severe embarrassment to the Department of Defence.
One Per Cent: Drone mission control hit by self-cloning computer virus
The Drone Threat to National Security: Scientific American
WASP III drone Image: Courtesy AeroVironment, Inc. Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on security and privacy during the age of drone warfare. Part two is available here.
Days after the Pentagon first denied and then admitted that it lost touch with a high-tech drone aircraft, authorities in Iran are now saying that they have the plane — and its condition is pristine. The unmanned, robotic aircraft — a RQ170 Sentinel drone plane — disappeared last week.
Iran shows intercepted CIA drone unscathed (VIDEO) — RT
The last decade of global conflict has seen the dawning of the age of the robot plane.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: coming soon to a sky near you
Video 'radar' to stop drone mid-air collisions - tech - 01 November 2011 - New Scientist
IF DRONES are ever going to monitor road traffic , say, they will need a way to automatically avoid other aircraft. This is vital in case the drone loses radio contact with its ground pilot , but the radar systems needed to see other aircraft are too heavy for most lightweight drones. Now Debadeepta Dey of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a possible solution.
The Drone Threat to Privacy: Scientific American
Features | Technology In a world in which nearly anyone can purchase a device capable of photographing locations behind walls, gates and fences, will anyone be able to keep a secret? Strike VTOL Image: Courtesy AeroVironment, Inc.12:18 16 December 2011
Gallery - Remote robots: Human-free by land, sea and air - Image 1 - New Scientist
Whenever we hear about reconnaissance planes, descriptor such as "stealthy" and "slipping under the radar" are bandied around.
How do modern spy planes evade detection?
(Image: Mark Hamblin/Oxford Scientific/Getty) Fast-moving birds like goshawks can zip through dense forests by intuitively avoiding the trees, but researchers at MIT have discovered a theoretical speed limit over which they are guaranteed to crash. The findings could help build more efficient unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by designing them to mimic bird flight paths.