DARPA Wants to Give Soldiers Robot Surrogates, Avatar Style

February 19th, 2012

Via: IEEE:

In the movie Avatar, humans hooked themselves up to brain-machine-interface pods with which they could control giant genetically engineered human-alien hybrids. It’s just a movie, but DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, doesn’t care: It wants this kind of system to be real, just replace “giant genetically engineered human-alien hybrids” with “robots.”

In its 2012 budget, DARPA has decided to pour US $7 million into the “Avatar Project,” whose goal is the following: “develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.”

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One Response to “DARPA Wants to Give Soldiers Robot Surrogates, Avatar Style”

  1. steve holmes says:
    February 20, 2012 at 3:05 am

    I am tired of paying for war toy bullshit.

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