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In the USA, no, not really.
So where is this different? And how? Who is funding this outside of the US and for what?
In Japan, they'd like to use robots for earthquake rescue.
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#52Serious question, is there anything driving mobile robotics research besides the defense dept? I spent my grad school time in a robotics lab and it always bummed me out that anytime you see something amazing like this it's invariable funded by a military research agency which can't wait to strap a gun to the damned thing. Same thing for computer vision, except it was all about surveillance.
We geeks are the enablers of the upcoming Techno-Police State. Fully responsible.
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#53At this stage, I wonder if there is there a way to move these little beasts with cameras and weapons without making them too big for windows though...
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#54I'm sure the DOD would probably want a word with that guy
This was my first thought. It's sad that whenever new technology is developed, governments think of ways to use the technology to kill people.
Yet, this is really only because every other government is doing the exact same thing. An arms race naturally has a self-defense component.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
So where is this different? And how? Who is funding this outside of the US and for what?
The japanese do a lot of robot research and AFAIK most of it is not military. I'm not sure if the non-military clause in their constitution means they can't do military research.
The Japanese have a fairly large and technically advanced military, they just call it a "self-defense force". They can and do carry out military research.
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#56Nice! This is more of what I'd like to see on HN.
Might be asking too much, but I'd also like to see a thread discussing the possible parts, schematics, and source code I could use to hack one of these together myself :) To start: what kind of rotors are those? Are they expensive?
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#57Serious question, is there anything driving mobile robotics research besides the defense dept? I spent my grad school time in a robotics lab and it always bummed me out that anytime you see something amazing like this it's invariable funded by a military research agency which can't wait to strap a gun to the damned thing. Same thing for computer vision, except it was all about surveillance.
I thought about this for a while a couple of months ago and wrote down my thoughts on war, robots & culture here:
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#58I love the sound it makes when the rotors speed up to catch the copter after a maneuver.
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#59Serious question, is there anything driving mobile robotics research besides the defense dept? I spent my grad school time in a robotics lab and it always bummed me out that anytime you see something amazing like this it's invariable funded by a military research agency which can't wait to strap a gun to the damned thing. Same thing for computer vision, except it was all about surveillance.
this doesn't answer your question at all, but it's just food for thought: imagine we traveled back in time to the 1960's ... i suppose that people would ask "Serious question, is there anything driving reliable robust nationwide packet-switched data network research besides the defense dept? it always bummed me out that anytime you see something amazing it's inevitably funded by military which can't wait to use it to plan and coordinate military strikes against the soviets and to plan for some ridiculous doomsday nuclear holocaust that might never come" ... without huge amounts of DARPA funding throughout the 60's and 70's for the Internet, we'd all still be pen pals sending snail mail to one another ;)
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#60Am I the only one who thinks a future filled with robots like this is scary and pretty undesirable?
No, but what're you gonna do? Ban technology?