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Iran releases pictures of downed Israeli ‘Hermes’ drone
The Israeli spy drone shot down by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is an Israeli-made Hermes drone, says an Iranian commander. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can operate within a radius of 800 kilometers
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Robots could murder us out of KINDNESS unless they are taught the value of human life, engineer claims
Future generations could be exterminated by Terminator-style robots unless machines are taught the value of human life. This is the stark warning made by Amsterdam-based engineer Nell Watson, who believes droids could kill humans out
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U.S. Government Invests in Robot Personal Trainers for Children
The evolution of humanoid robots continues to quicken with greater strides being made toward applying artificial intelligence to create emotional robots. The commitment to reverse engineer the human brain coupled with the exponential increase in
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“We May Only Have a Few Years” To Prevent Killer Robots
The arrival date of The Singularity - the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses that of humans - is accelerating. In Ray Kurzweil's 2006 book, The Singularity is Near, he put the final date
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Ban on Terminator Robots Postponed at United Nations Convention
Ethics is very often the final concern of science, especially where military endeavors are concerned. Drones and robots are finally becoming front page news after a series of warnings from prominent scientists and researchers who
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Scientists: Robots Could be Programmed to Kill You ‘For the Greater Good’
Autonomous vehicles present ‘morally dangerous path’ As the United Nations debates legislation that could outlaw ‘killer robots’, scientists predict that artificially intelligent systems could one day decide to kill humans “for the greater good.”
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World War II Metal Detecting – Luftwaffe MG15 Machine Gun and Hitlerjugend Relic Hunting (HD)
Fresh video with the recent relics from Team WWIIMD. Last february we visited the former airfields of the German Luftwaffe in world war two. In the search for war … source
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Real Live Battlefield: Video Game ‘Map’ Mirrors Ukraine Tank Depot, Pits Russia vs. USA
The new Battlefield 4 video game from Electronic Arts, in which fictional forces from the United States, Russia and China go to war with each other features a curious, perhaps coincidental, new ‘map’ that
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Robots with insect brains
German researchers have developed a robot that mimics the simple nervous system used for olfactory learning in the honeybee, using color instead of odors. The researchers have installed a camera on a small robotic vehicle
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How A Simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds
An Oregon startup has developed a pocket-size device that uses tiny sponges to stop bleeding fast. When a soldier is shot on the battlefield, the emergency treatment can seem as brutal as the injury itself.
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The Invisible Military Becomes A Reality
Once thought to be only a Science Fiction/Fantasy technology, Guy Cramer, President/CEO of Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp., discusses the implications of militaries which can now become invisible with his light bending technology called "Quantum
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New ‘invisibility cloak’ type designed
A new "broadband" invisibility cloak which hides objects over a wide range of frequencies has been devised. Despite the hype about Harry Potter-style cloaks, our best current designs can only conceal objects at specific wavelengths
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Iran unveils ‘biggest’ attack drone with ‘2,000 kilometer range’
Iran on Monday revealed a new missile-equipped drone which it is calling its biggest one yet. The unmanned aerial vehicle has a range of some 2,000 kilometers and is capable of launching air-to-surface missile
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Iran gives indigenous ScanEagle drone to Russia
A senior Iranian commander says Iran gave Russia one of its indigenous ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicles as a sign of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. Commander of the Aerospace Division of the Islamic
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All In The (Robotic) Family
As the evolution of humanoid robots continues to quicken, it is forcing the question of whether or not we we will love our robotic overlords. Or, are they not "overlords" at all, but soon
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DARPA to Genetically Engineer Humans by Adding a 47th Chromosome
We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca? In that 1997 film, society is structured around eugenics as people are bioengineered to be ‘perfect specimens’, and one’s entire
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Meet the real life Terminator: Most advanced robot ever is able to walk through battlefields as bullets fly and even nuclear disaster zones to rescue the injured
At 6ft 2in tall and weighing 330lb Atlas is a formidable figure. And with 28 hydraulically actuated joints and stereo vision, it is one of the most advanced robots ever
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Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA surveillance to be turned over to AI machines
Most people don't know about the existence of quantum computers. Almost no one understands how they work, but theories include bizarre-sounding explanations like, "they reach into alternate universes to derive the correct answers to
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Darpa Robotics Challenge: the search for the perfect robot soldier
The Atlas robot looks something out of the post-apocalyptic future, or maybe a Will Smith blockbuster. It's a 330lb cyborg with eerily human-like hands and a head equipped with a laser. It lunges forward
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No swarms in space: DARPA axes $200mn ‘fractionated sat’ project
After spending more than $200 million, the Pentagon’s advanced research branch has decided to scrap one of its key space projects, System F6, which aimed to distribute functions of a big satellite into several
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