Comments on: Not Quite T2…

By: delphi

delphi — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:12:24 +0000

There is more about the military robot transformation at TacticalWarfighter
video, pics and updates on Project Horizon
http://www.tacticalwarfightergear.com/tacticalgear/catalog/Military_Robots.php

By: LauraB

LauraB — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:19:12 +0000

About 2 yrs ago, this was noted. http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/DNAorigami-nature.pdf
If you can imagine using microfluidics and things like Sandia’s structures here — http://mems.sandia.gov/gallery/images_gears_and_transmissions.html
– well, trust me that there are a thousand ways to have something small enough to tuck itself into a sliver of space yet deliver a very real level of threat and/or recon.
It is utter foolishness to think that it isn’t already done by someone somewhere…

By: Piotr

Piotr — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:58:31 +0000

” Real usefull..[sic]“
I said “a shape of a jointed piece of paper” not “made out of paper” Jimbo Jones. Apparently, your reading comprehension is right up there with your spelling. When you get those two figured out, we can move on to creativity.
Bill Tolbert, amen brother!

By: bill tolbert

bill tolbert — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:37:24 +0000

Nay-sayers always think if they have not seen it, it can’t be done. Think of all the amazing inventions that followed after someone’s crazy ideas, then perhaps you may reconsider you opinion about its possibilies.

By: Robospam

Robospam — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:23:10 +0000

“sounds like utter bollocks, pure waste of money but hey you yanks are damn good at throwing cash away with absurd procurment and R&D programs.“
Yeah, Jimbo, like the Internet. Just look at how that total waste of money turned out.

By: CapnMack

CapnMack — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:13:09 +0000

Think “Minority Report”, where the little spider robots swarmed over the building Tom Cruise was in. All we’ll have to do is look in all bathtubs and all the terrorists will be in there, perfect!

By: Jimbo Jones

Jimbo Jones — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:49:52 +0000

sounds like utter bollocks, pure waste of money but hey you yanks are damn good at throwing cash away with absurd procurment and R&D programs. Whole story made me LOL. No doubt when if you yanks get this to work, fat chance though, if you did you’d only gloat and tell the whole world how it works complete with the blueprints for all to see, pretty much like you do with all mil projects therefore letting the enemy develop its own copy for a tenth the price. I expect the drawings for this thing and how its going to work to appear on some news network within two years if it works out.

By: Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:45:54 +0000

Yeah, and I think they are going to call them the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad robots. Cause if you took all the hot air out of Ahmadinejad, he would be able to slide under a doorway…

By: Franklin

Franklin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:30:49 +0000

If we can design computers one molecule at a time then designing an interlaced system in a liquid metal environment doesn’t seem so strange. Why not create an architecture based on DNA in metal similar to memory metal. With new super computers we might be able to translate design elements into hardware in the not to distant future. Such a robot would also be able to walk around invisible, fly, travel under water, and even function in space which was all hinted at in T2, but would have made a poor movie.

By: Foraker

Foraker — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:12:29 +0000

Or better yet, Tom Selleck’s movie Runaway, with bug-like robots that could flatten themselves enough to go under doors.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/