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> I was thinking "am I seeing the next-gen war technology?" Did you see any coverage of Robomasters? Some light starter material from The Verge in 2016 https

by Cactus2018 6y ago

> I was thinking "am I seeing the next-gen war technology?" Did you see any coverage of Robomasters? Some light starter material from The Verge in 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECr4zgK6cPA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECr4zgK6cPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboMaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboMaster >> RoboMaster is an annual intercollegiate robot competition held in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, founded and hosted by the drone tech giant DJI. First started in 2015, it is the brainchild of DJI's founder and CEO Frank Wang, and jointly sponsored by the Communist Youth League Central Committee, the All-China Students' Federation (ACSF) and the Shenzhen City Government. It is the first shooting sport-style robotics competition in China.

schoen 6y ago
There are a bunch of these competitions around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_combat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_combat (It looks like RoboMaster is bigger in terms of the number of participants and spectators.)
- DonHopkins 6y ago
  Then there's the Godfather of Robot Combat, Mark Pauline, founder of Survival Research Laboratories. http://www.srl.org/ http://www.srl.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pauline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pauline >Pauline founded SRL in 1978 and it is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for producing the most dangerous shows on earth. Although acknowledged as a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot Wars, Pauline shies away from rules-bound competition preferring a more anarchic approach. Machines are liberated and re-configured away from the functions they were originally meant to perform. https://books.google.nl/books?id=AI1sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54&lpg=PT54&dq=character+in+cyberpunk+novel+based+on+Mark+Pauline+mona+lisa&source=bl&ots=PvJyNDocEZ&sig=ACfU3U2OGeqLUsEzSTgiqMqUaDrEyt4cxQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjy5oOjuIfqAhVZQjABHXRmBu0Q6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=character%20in%20cyberpunk%20novel%20based%20on%20Mark%20Pauline%20mona%20lisa&f=false https://books.google.nl/books?id=AI1sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54&lpg=PT... >"With the character of outlaw underground robot maker Slick Henry, William Gibson has immortalized artist Mark Pauline in the novel MONA LISA OVERDRIVE." -Thinking Like a Machine: An Artists Journey into Robotics https://books.google.nl/books?id=_riKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=PT158&dq=character+in+cyberpunk+novel+based+on+Mark+Pauline&source=bl&ots=ptf5pjrnv4&sig=ACfU3U0po954S5W3s3pq_YQzV8WAskkqkw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivipu8t4fqAhVVSzABHa1-BUAQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Mark%20Pauline&f=false https://books.google.nl/books?id=_riKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=P... >"Pauline builds engines of destruction. He is the founder and director of Survival Research Laboratories, a loosely knit organization which, since 1979, has been perfecting a heavy metal theater of cruelty-scary, stupefyingly loud events in which remote-controlled weaponry, computer-directed robots, and reanimated roadkill do battle in the murk of smoke, flames, and greasy fumes." -Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFmGu28HVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFmGu28HVQ >Survival Research Laboratories Live at the Extreme Futurist Festival, LA, California, Dec 22, 2012. This is the public YouTube debut of this documentary, four years in the making. It chronicles the planning, pre-production, and performance of a full Survival Research Labs show, captured by nineteen cameras. https://www.youtube.com/user/survivalresearchlabs/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/survivalresearchlabs/videos >(lots more disturbing content in SRL's video list)
swimfar 6y ago
There are a number of these types of collegiate competitions in China. A student was telling me about one he was working on where you had to optimize missile trajectories to avoid radar detection.

schoen 6y ago

There are a bunch of these competitions around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_combat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_combat (It looks like RoboMaster is bigger in terms of the number of participants and spectators.)

DonHopkins 6y ago
Then there's the Godfather of Robot Combat, Mark Pauline, founder of Survival Research Laboratories. http://www.srl.org/ http://www.srl.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pauline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pauline >Pauline founded SRL in 1978 and it is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for producing the most dangerous shows on earth. Although acknowledged as a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot Wars, Pauline shies away from rules-bound competition preferring a more anarchic approach. Machines are liberated and re-configured away from the functions they were originally meant to perform. https://books.google.nl/books?id=AI1sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54&lpg=PT54&dq=character+in+cyberpunk+novel+based+on+Mark+Pauline+mona+lisa&source=bl&ots=PvJyNDocEZ&sig=ACfU3U2OGeqLUsEzSTgiqMqUaDrEyt4cxQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjy5oOjuIfqAhVZQjABHXRmBu0Q6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=character%20in%20cyberpunk%20novel%20based%20on%20Mark%20Pauline%20mona%20lisa&f=false https://books.google.nl/books?id=AI1sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54&lpg=PT... >"With the character of outlaw underground robot maker Slick Henry, William Gibson has immortalized artist Mark Pauline in the novel MONA LISA OVERDRIVE." -Thinking Like a Machine: An Artists Journey into Robotics https://books.google.nl/books?id=_riKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=PT158&dq=character+in+cyberpunk+novel+based+on+Mark+Pauline&source=bl&ots=ptf5pjrnv4&sig=ACfU3U0po954S5W3s3pq_YQzV8WAskkqkw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivipu8t4fqAhVVSzABHa1-BUAQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Mark%20Pauline&f=false https://books.google.nl/books?id=_riKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=P... >"Pauline builds engines of destruction. He is the founder and director of Survival Research Laboratories, a loosely knit organization which, since 1979, has been perfecting a heavy metal theater of cruelty-scary, stupefyingly loud events in which remote-controlled weaponry, computer-directed robots, and reanimated roadkill do battle in the murk of smoke, flames, and greasy fumes." -Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFmGu28HVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJFmGu28HVQ >Survival Research Laboratories Live at the Extreme Futurist Festival, LA, California, Dec 22, 2012. This is the public YouTube debut of this documentary, four years in the making. It chronicles the planning, pre-production, and performance of a full Survival Research Labs show, captured by nineteen cameras. https://www.youtube.com/user/survivalresearchlabs/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/survivalresearchlabs/videos >(lots more disturbing content in SRL's video list)

swimfar 6y ago

There are a number of these types of collegiate competitions in China. A student was telling me about one he was working on where you had to optimize missile trajectories to avoid radar detection.