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DARPA being DARPA, they came up with a buzzword to sell it to the brass and to Congress. Read into the actual content, and it's the related ideas that a) milita
by azernik 8y ago
DARPA being DARPA, they came up with a buzzword to sell it to the brass and to Congress. Read into the actual content, and it's the related ideas that a) military communications equipment should interoperate better than it does now, and b) that command and control mechanisms should be better optimized for combined-arms (and cross-branch) warfare.
- starbeast 8y agoHave they provided an API for the meat eating robots?
- ryandvm 8y agoLord, "meat eating robots" has to be the most dystopian phrase I've ever heard.
- starbeast 8y agoEATR: Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot - https://robotictechnologyinc.com/images/upload/file/Presentation%20EATR%20Brief%20Overview%206%20April%2009.pdf https://robotictechnologyinc.com/images/upload/file/Presenta... Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Project DARPA Contract W31P4Q-08-C-0292
- azernik 8y agoTo be fair, those robots are omnivores. In practice they'd likely be mostly-vegetarian.
- starbeast 8y ago'Likely be mostly' is not that reassuring. Given that fear is a weapon, I don't trust people on a battlefield to not use meat eating robots for psychological effect, if they happen to have them around. If it is possible for people to be fed into the meat eating robot, then they will be.