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Robot insects for surveillance and assassination

May 13, 2013 · by · in Coming Next, News · Leave a comment

Researchers have developed a remote-controlled robot about the size of a fat housefly that mimics a fly’s aerial prowess. Developing a robot to do the same took more than a decade and a variety of technologies. It weighs just 80 milligrams and is controlled remotely. Each wing can be controlled independently. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/science/a-remote-controlled-robot-the-size-of-a-fly.html?ref=science  The robot fly […]

Waterproof snake robots for surveillance

April 29, 2013 · by · in Coming Next, News · Leave a comment

“Snake robots can use their many internal degrees of freedom to thread through tightly packed volumes, accessing locations that people and machinery otherwise cannot use,” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22340218 The latest in a series of “modular snake robots” have been developed at the Pittsburgh-based research centre over the past decade.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObTR5IRKY8k&feature=share&list=UUZ1JsYlIhkhEpJHFRny4J7w   The robots are designed to mirror […]

Drones to spy and kill in US worries citizens

March 10, 2013 · by · in News · Leave a comment

American suspicion about the government, the military and the surveillance state: the specter of drones streaking through the skies above American cities and towns, controlled by faceless bureaucrats and equipped to spy or kill worries americans. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/us/politics/visions-of-drones-in-us-skies-touch-bipartisan-nerve.html?src=rechp There are dangers of unchecked government. And it has exposed fears about ultra-advanced technologies that are fueled by […]