In the not-too-distant future, the U.S. Navy could be hunting subs and protecting ships using robotic, inflatable boats. That’s the plan, at least, from a team of American and Israeli defense contractors. The Navy and Coast Guard already use a bunch of rigid-hull inflatable boats to zip across choppy waters and brings SEALs to shore. […]
From the monthly archives:
March 2005
“Many say people power brought down the regime in Kyrgyzstan last week. But Bayaman Erkinbayev, a lawmaker, martial arts champ and one of the Central Asian nation’s richest men, says it was his small army of Kung Fu-style fighters,” according to AFP. “When our old men were beaten and thrown out of the regional administration […]
Those of you who found the idea of gun-toting robots a little creepy should probably click away right now. Because the Army has just finished testing out a unmanned ground vehicle, or UGV, that obliterates its foes with electrically-fired grenades. The robot is the same modified Talon UGV that’s now on its way to Iraq, […]
New, from the maker of the internationally-renowned “Girlfriend Quest” PC game, comes a six-foot tall set of mirrors, designed to reflect the sun’s light — and roast whatever comes in its way. The Solar Death Ray captures sunlight in 112 mirrors, each 3.5 inches square, and then spits it back onto a single spot five […]
It’s not Kirk and Spock’s universal translator. Not quite. But the Pentagon is looking to for researchers to build a software set “with the goal of eliminating the need for linguists and analysts and automatically providing relevant, distilled, actionable information.“ Global Autonomous Language Exploitation, or GALE, is a project of — who else? — Defense […]
