Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Damning Video Details Tesla’s ‘Full Self Driving’ Claims Versus Reality
March 26th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: On Thursday, a video dropped on YouTube that laid out Elon Musk’s statements about Full Self Driving over the last 5 years, compared to what the company has actually been able to achieve and deliver. The 12 minute video laid out a blatantly obvious case for Full Self Driving to be, as one […]
COVID Nonsense: £5,000 Fines for Anyone Leaving the UK Without ‘Reasonable Excuse’
March 23rd, 2021Via: Daily Mail: Travellers face a £5,000 fine for going abroad on holiday when a ban on leaving the UK without ‘reasonable excuse’ comes into force on Monday. The threat of fines has been extended until the end of June, making foreign summer holidays look increasingly unlikely as a third wave of coronavirus sweeps across […]
U.S. Army Prepping Robotic Combat Vehicles for Big Test with Soldiers in 2022
March 17th, 2021Via: Defense News: The U.S. Army has taken receipt of its light and medium Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) prototypes from industry teams and is putting them through the paces this year ahead of a major company-level soldier assessment in 2022. More: Textron Systems Readies All-Electric Ripsaw M5 UGV
Skydio: Drones With ‘Most Advanced AI Ever’ Coming Soon To Your Local Police Department
March 3rd, 2021Via: Forbes: It claims to be shipping the most advanced AI-powered drone ever built: a quadcopter that costs as little as $1,000, which can latch on to targets and follow them, dodging all sorts of obstacles and capturing everything on high-quality video. Skydio claims that its software can even predict a target’s next move, be […]
The Navy Plans To Launch Swarms Of Aerial Drones From Unmanned Submarines And Ships
March 3rd, 2021Via: The War Zone: The U.S. Navy has handed a contract to Raytheon for versions of its Coyote small unmanned aerial vehicle configured as loitering munitions, also known as “suicide drones.” The service says that it specifically wants them to support the development of unmanned surface and underwater vehicles as platforms to launch drone swarms, […]
Google’s Eric Schmidt & The Artificial Intelligence Military-Industrial Complex
February 25th, 2021Via: The Last American Vagabond: In late January, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), or the AI Commission, released a draft of their upcoming report to Congress, rejecting calls to ban AI-powered autonomous weapons, characterized by critics as “killer robots”. While the AI Commission did briefly address privacy and civil liberties concerns, they […]
Army Special Forces Wants Lasers to Shoot Down Drones
February 11th, 2021Via: Nextgov: The Army wants to protect Special Forces operators from unmanned aerial systems—better known as drones—by shooting them out of the sky with high-energy weapons—better known as lasers. The Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office added a new section to its broad agency announcement vehicle for cutting-edge technologies, putting out a call under […]
Robot Motherships To Launch Drone Swarms From Sea, Underwater, Air And Near-Space
February 5th, 2021Via: Forbes: Last week Louisiana-based shipbuilder Metal Shark announced that the U.S. Marine Corps had selected them to develop a Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessel (LRUSV), an 11-meter robot boat capable of operating autonomously and launching loitering munitions to attack targets at sea and on land. The unmanned boat is just the latest of a […]
Starbucks, Microsoft and Costco to Help with COVID Vaccine Rollout in Washington State [???]
February 4th, 2021I queued this Last American Vagabond video to the start of the discussion about this extremely bizarre situation. Via: Government Technology: In an effort to streamline the delivery of Washington state’s COVID-19 vaccines, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Monday the state’s plan to create the Washington State Vaccine Command and Coordination Center to meet […]
Spot’s Got an Arm
February 2nd, 2021Update: Meet Spot’s Expanded Product Line — Via: Boston Dynamics:
