Remember William Gibson's short story Johnny Mneumonic? Of Course you do! Anyway the story featured an ex-Navy junkie cyborg Dolphin named Jonesy the War-whale. Well, the Navy really does use Dolphins in mine-clearing operations but they're not cyborgs (or junkies either one hopes) anyway here's a pretty picture
http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20048260.asp
For more pics, info and even calendar pages for your desktop go to the Navy's offical site at
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/mammals/index.html
"Kids, remember yesterday when they said there was No future? well--- this is it!" - Blank Reg. This blog is about the future or lack thereof and how our 21st Century present has or hasn't lived up to the 20th Century vision of the Future.I write about the history of the Future, the future of the Future and pretty much anything involving robots.
Thursday, August 26, 2004
More fun with exoskeletons!
Just to show that the japanese aren't the only ones working on exoskeletons here's the DARPA funded UC Berkeley BLEEX project http://bleex.me.berkeley.edu/bleex.htm
Monday, August 23, 2004
Dommo arrigatto Mr. robotto
Back when I went to NEXTFEST, there were a lot of demonstrations of Japanese robotic prowess. Of course the most impressive was the Sony Asimo but they also had a "muscle suit" a sort of exoskeleton developed to help disabled people with mobility. You can read more about it at http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/08/09/japan.robots/index.html
Thursday, August 12, 2004
They blowed up real good!
While most of the xprize coverage has focused on the frontrunners Spaceship One and the Canadian Davinci Project, that doesn't mean the other teams are just sitting on their hands. Rubicon 1 had a test flight last week which didn't exactly go as planned. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/08/09/bc.privaterocket.ap/index.html
learn more about this and other x-prize hijinks athttp://xprize.com/
learn more about this and other x-prize hijinks athttp://xprize.com/
Taking the rockets out of rocket science
Looks like NASA is finally investigating alternatives to chemical rockets for propulsion http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/08/12/space.propulsion/index.html
while most of these ideas have been around in one form or another decades actually testing them out to see if they work would be a positive step.
while most of these ideas have been around in one form or another decades actually testing them out to see if they work would be a positive step.
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