Pentagon Developing Autonomous Humanoid Robots To “Perform Evacuation Operations”

[phill4paul]

Ding, Ding, Ding. Thread winner. Rod Roddy, tell him what he's won. An indefinite vacation at an all inclusive FEMA resort. Hotel transportation is on it's way.

I'll load my..ehrm..pack my bags.

I was talking with a friend of mine that had seen a PBS special decades ago of a scientist that had created an limited EMP generator on the back of either a small trailer or a pick up. He said the guy was talking about what it could do if set off in a traffic jam. I have been unable, despite an entire night entering search terms, to find this. It might be bunk. I dunno.

 

[jmdrake]

I look foward to seeing the hi-tech anti-robot weapons that innovative humans all over the world will inevitably create.

In the Dr. Who universe, gold kills cybermen.



So just get ya some of these.

 

[roho76]

I'll load my..ehrm..pack my bags.

I was talking with a friend of mine that had seen a PBS special decades ago of a scientist that had created an limited EMP generator on the back of either a small trailer or a pick up. He said the guy was talking about what it could do if set off in a traffic jam. I have been unable, despite an entire night entering search terms, to find this. It might be bunk. I dunno.

Anything electronic turns to shit. This is actually the best use of a nuke. Explode it in the atmosphere and it acts like an EMP destroying all electronics within range. Very effective, if you want to return to the dark ages.

 

[enjerth]

The robots will operate with “supervised autonomy”, according to DARPA, and will be able to act intelligently by themselves, making their own decisions if and when direct supervision is not possible.

The Pentagon also envisions that the robots will be able to use basic and diverse “tools”.

Oh good, it's a MacGuyver machine, helping hand, that says "come with me if you want to live." It's kind of like the good-guy terminator... can they get Arnie to do the voice acting?

 

[shane77m]

Oh good, it's a MacGuyver machine, helping hand, that says "come with me if you want to live." It's kind of like the good-guy terminator... can they get Arnie to do the voice acting?

 

[enjerth]

Oh good, it's a MacGuyver machine, helping hand, that says "come with me if you want to live." It's kind of like the good-guy terminator... can they get Arnie to do the voice acting?

Oh hey, how about this guy??? He doesn't seem to be doing anything.

 

[phill4paul]

Anything electronic turns to shit. This is actually the best use of a nuke. Explode it in the atmosphere and it acts like an EMP destroying all electronics within range. Very effective, if you want to return to the dark ages.

Since I've admitted to not being a scientist the chance of me creating a nuke and creating a delivery system for an atmospheric detonation is significantly less than developing a mobile limited yield EMP.
I believe the PBS scientist was working on an magnetic field fluctuation as opposed to a nuclear burst.

 

[awake]

These, if the technology is ever made workable, will be employed like Obama's drones - search and rescue only [ sarcasim].

 

[youngbuck]

Since I've admitted to not being a scientist the chance of me creating a nuke and creating a delivery system for an atmospheric detonation is significantly less than developing a mobile limited yield EMP.
I believe the PBS scientist was working on an magnetic field fluctuation as opposed to a nuclear burst.

Ok, I got an idea. Have you watched the current season of Breaking Bad? [Spoiler alert] In one of the episodes, they need to erase information from a computer that's inside a police station's inventory room. To do it, they get a small delivery-type truck (for lack of a better word/phrase) and put a huge electro-magnet in it from a crane that's from a car wrecking/crushing yard. They also put a bunch of batteries in the back of the truck to power the magnet. They pull the truck outside the evidence room's wall, hit the switch for the electro-magnet and the powerful magnetic field erases the information from the computer's harddrive. Perhaps this could be improvised to work against a robot?

I propose the IEMD: Improvised Electro-Magnetic Device

 

[torchbearer]

Focused EMP is where it is at. I, however, am not a scientist and could not even begin to develop it.

a directional microwave, but you'd have to get close. a robot taser.

 

[phill4paul]

Like I said I have NO idea bud. The magnetic disk erase is one we all know about. Hell we've heard the urban legend that packing your speakers next to your computer. But that is kinda different, yet the same I guess. An EMP fries all circuitry.

And you get future credit for "IEMD."