The shape of things to come?

I'm very fond of speculating on matters, and a strange combo of current technology is making me ponder..

Ever seen the Asimo robot?
link [dai.ly]

Add the xBox Kinect as a control device for the Robot...

Now stick a mini-gun (or suchlike) on the robot....

Hey Presto, a soldier that the controller need not even be in the same country to fight.

I know the tech is still in its infancy, and currently just would not work, but it can't be long before it is.

Kudos to anyone coming up with a similar combo.

Surrogates?

..or Hardware

Taken from Brown University's Research Center

"To investigate how we interact with the world, Professor William Warren and his students are applying cutting-edge virtual reality technology to the scientific study of perception and action. Research in Brown’s Virtual Environment Navigation Lab (VENLab) investigates how observers visually control their locomotion and navigation in complex environments. Subjects wearing a head-mounted display can walk freely in 40 x 40 ft. room while immersed in a highly realistic computer-generated virtual environment (Brown’s VENLab is the largest fully immersive virtual reality lab in the world and the first one located at a U.S. university). One line of experiments studies the visual strategies people use to steer toward stationary and moving targets and to avoid stationary and moving obstacles. The results reveal that we use patterns of visual motion, called optic flow, to guide our walking. A dynamical model of steering and obstacle avoidance demonstrates that the routes people take through complex scenes can emerge from their interactions with the environment, without explicit planning."

Note when I stumbled upon this three years ago, and almost went into a big s***, the description wasn't a "Headset" it was a robot placed in a rotating room.


Tie in Quantum Theory and I'm a sitting duck....or mayhaps ape.






See, these are the kind of stupid things we start thinking about when we can't find a decent job or get laid.

Either way it's all speculation but it is annoying - which why I often times just resort to letting go of thinking all together and just screwing around.

If the above demonstration is the actual situation then there really isn't a whole lot I can do but just wait it out.

But robotics teamed with remote controls can lead to all sorts of wacky stuff - like the above movie Hardware in which an assassination army was created for population control or as you've mentioned and demonstrated in BattleStar Galactica - Androids used in place of human soldiers.

I should also add that these concepts should be a bit more common place than what they are so people don't stumble upon the ideas themselves and think they've gone mad or broke something.

It is only through the openess and sharing of ideas that people can compare notes and feel relieved that they are not treading new ground or at least not treading new ground alone.

Electric avatar: Japanese robot works like a hi-tech 'puppet' controlled via a virtual reality suit

Suit lets 'pilot' see through robot eyes and feel with its hands
VR-controlled robot could be used in Fukushima-style disasters
Robot controls are so sensitive it can pick up objects


Read more: link [www.dailymail.co.uk]




I dread to think of the miss-applications of this.