What Cockroaches with Backpacks Can Do
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#3Yeah, to go into collapse earthquake buildings.
Right.
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#4Yeah, to go into collapse earthquake buildings. Right.
It cracks me up how that is the go to 'application' for all robots, drones and swarm-bots. It is used so often it has become a cliche.
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#6Put off college for a year going to Europe to "find themselves"?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It cracks me up how that is the go to 'application' for all robots, drones and swarm-bots. It is used so often it has become a cliche.
Well, what else can you do with a bionic cockroach? An organic competitor to the Roomba?
Strap spy equipment and bio/chemical weapons to them.
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#8Yeah, to go into collapse earthquake buildings. Right.
Honestly, if I was stuck in some building after an earthquake, I think the only way my day could get worse was if I was then crawled upon by cyborg roaches.
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#9Why stop at roaches? We could do this to dogs or small children! There's sometimes a tightrope between science and ethics, and this is just plain unethical.
I'll start with the argument just about everyone can relate to. We all know this isn't going to actually help people in collapsed buildings or find lost wedding rings. It's going to be used by government spy agencies and military goons to control people in one way or another.
Secondly, "it's just a cockroach" doesn't work for me. At what point do we say it's ok to essentially torture a living being into doing what we want? You could argue a cockroach doesn't have feelings or consciousness, but I could also argue that I am the only living being with feelings or consciousness. "I have no way of telling if another person or creature has feelings, therefor they must not."
Third, for those who don't give a shit about anybody but humans, how long until this is used in humans? They are sending signals directly into a living being's brain that controls its motor functions. Could that tech not be applied to a person eventually? Why put people in prisons when we can just force them into building signs all day? Why give soldiers a battle plan when you can just safely control them with a joystick from 3000 miles away?
This isn't just about making a cockroach do simple things. We're trading our humanity for science that will only do us harm.
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#10Yeah, to go into collapse earthquake buildings. Right.
It cracks me up how that is the go to 'application' for all robots, drones and swarm-bots. It is used so often it has become a cliche.
I think interest in that application is partly driven by a DARPA competition for disaster-response robotics: http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/