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The National Intelligence Council Predicts a Very Transhuman Future by 2030
The National Intelligence Council is a high-level agency best known for producing National Intelligence Estimates – forecasts predicting future trends and issues of the next fifteen years. These extensive reports are produced every election
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Biologically Modified Soldiers Are the Future of Warfare
Stated in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) report entitled, “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds” the advancements in “neuro-enhancements could provide superior memory recall or speed of thought. Brain-machine interfaces could provide ‘superhuman’ abilities, enhancing
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Hacking the Human Brain Furthers the Advent of Super Soldiers
The Human Connectome Project (HCP) is dedicated to “understanding the complete details of neural connectivity.” They endeavor to “construct a map of the complete structural and functional neural connections in vivo within and across
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One Million Robots: Our Replacements Have Arrived
In the ongoing debate as to whether robots will help or hurt the job market in the U.S. and overseas, some concrete answers are beginning to appear. Foxconn is a Chinese electronics manufacturer of mobile
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Pentagon Wants Rescue Robots Built In Time For the Next “Natural Disaster”
In the wake of Tropical Storm Sandy, the Pentagon has requested that a team of “rescue robots” be engineered in time for the next “natural disaster”. The DARPA Robotics Challenge is putting out the
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DARPA Continues Human Experiments to Create Military Super Soldiers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a $2 billion yearly budget for research into creating a super solider as well as developing a synthetic police force. Working with the human genome, DARPA
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DARPA combines human brains and 120-megapixel cameras to create the ultimate military threat detection system
After more than four years of research, DARPA has created a system that successfully combines soldiers, EEG brainwave scanners, 120-megapixel cameras, and multiple computers running cognitive visual processing algorithms into a cybernetic hivemind. Called
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Shoot to Kill: Autonomous Robots Developed By DARPA Will Not Question Orders
The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) program seeks to find ways to utilize different remote robotic manipulation systems that are controlled by humans. This program is divided into 3
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Synthetic Police Are Coming: DARPA Engineering Autonomous Robots
Because of the risks involved in rescue aid workers and human response teams, DARPA awarded Boston Dynamics, Inc. a $10.9 million contract to manufacture humanoid robots that are bi-pedal, built like humans and have
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Pentagon Developing Autonomous Humanoid Robots To “Perform Evacuation Operations”
The Department of Defense has awarded a lucrative contract to an engineering and robotics design company to develop and build humanoid robots that can act intelligently without supervision. Boston Dynamics Inc. has been contracted by
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U.S. Super Soldiers Of The Future Will Be Genetically Modified Transhumans Capable Of Superhuman Feats
The future of war is going to look really, really weird. The "super soldier" research that DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is working on right now is unlike anything we have
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What could possibly go wrong? U.S. Army wants to give war robots more power to ‘make their own decisions’
Armies of robots including dog-like creatures walking on four legs and huge lumbering trucks are the stuff of science fiction - specifically, bleak films such as The Terminator series. But the U.S. military not only
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5 Ways Robots Are Outsourcing Humans in the Workforce
The outsourcing of human jobs as a side effect of globalization has arguably contributed to the current unemployment crisis. However, a growing trend sees humans done away with altogether, even in the low-wage countries
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PETMAN: A Giant Step Taken Toward Building DARPA’s Robot Army
As part of DARPA's Robotics Challenge, which seeks more lifelike humanoid robots, the engineers at Boston Dynamics have impressed once again. Boston Dynamics first caught the public's attention by showcasing just how fast
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DARPA: Cyborg Chetah Runs 28 MPH in Test
DARPA’s robotic chetah has broken new land speed records for a robot, running on a treadmill at a lighting fast speed of 28 mph
Read More »Robo-Mule Hauls Military Gear And Follows Like a Dog
U.S. troops who carry as much as 100 pounds of gear could soon get a robotic mule capable of shouldering their burdens in the toughest terrain. Such a robot recently showed how it can
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