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NASA's new mission: Warbots?
WND ^ | April 22, 2014 | Steve Peacock

Posted on 04/22/2014 5:57:36 PM PDT by Steve Peacock

'Terminator' coming alive as agency explores humanoids 'for Earth applications'

While the federal government’s increased use and advocacy of drones over U.S. skies is widely known, its promotion of another technological advancement has received less attention: the accelerated deployment of “humanoid robots” into American society.

WND has discovered that NASA is recruiting help from industry and academia to speed up the commercialization of such robotic humanoids “for Earth applications.”

Among the applications is warfare, the agency said.

NASA said technical hurdles remain before sending human-like machines into combat operations and other “hazardous and remote environments.” Among the obstacles are “object recognition/detection” and “artificial vision,” according to a Sources Sought notice that WND discovered via routine database research.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drones; humanoidrobots; technology

1 posted on 04/22/2014 5:57:37 PM PDT by Steve Peacock
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To: Steve Peacock

Close nasa — we are broke as hell.


2 posted on 04/22/2014 5:59:31 PM PDT by SADMILLIE
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To: Steve Peacock

“object recognition/detection” and “artificial vision”.....

ah MINOR difficulties,, MINOR I tell you...


3 posted on 04/22/2014 6:00:19 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Steve Peacock

Oh, come now. What could possibly go wrong?

4 posted on 04/22/2014 6:04:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Steve Peacock

Swell, hope is unleashed, backed up by drones.

5 posted on 04/22/2014 6:06:55 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Steve Peacock

Where we are going with all this technology is a society with a fraction of the current population, ruled by an elite class and served by a completely enslaved and dispensible underclass. All controlled with technology that combines the Borg, Brave New World, The Matrix, The Terminator, and 1984 into on absolute, unrelenting, hellish existence.


6 posted on 04/22/2014 6:12:48 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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7 posted on 04/22/2014 6:17:48 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Free Vulcan

Dingy Harry would love to have this technology

to launch against a certain rancher.


8 posted on 04/22/2014 6:18:26 PM PDT by Harold Shea
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To: Steve Peacock

Ahhhh! muslim outreach!


9 posted on 04/22/2014 7:14:56 PM PDT by null and void (...if you are too sure of your place in heaven you might be too arrogant to actually get there.)
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