Category: Robots

Electronic Circuits

This is a fantastic site if you ever need an electronic circuit. Once in a while I’ll think of a project that I’d like to try, and being that there is a good chance somone has built something a bit like it before, a page like this comes in handy. Over 8,000 schematics and circuits! Think of what you could build…
Discover Circuits
Even more circuits…

Next up, the Hunter Killer Series…

U.S. Army tests battlefield robot armed with pump action shotgun
I have seen enough robots do crazy stuff all by themselves to see that by giving them a shotgun your just on the fast track for a Purple Heart.
However, teleoperated gun platforms (UAV) have proven themselves in combat on more than one occasion. I can see how having a bunch of armed packbots zipping across the field of engagement to an unsuspecting enemy has a great sense of appeal. As cool as it is, I think that warfare should be a bloody deadly affair for both sides, without that we tend to forget the consequences of going to war and will make it a trivial thing. ‘Push a button, wipe out a city, hum, what’s for lunch?’

March of the Machine Monkeys

Rise of the cyber monkeys
I for one welcome our new cyber monkey overlords…
I think this is a fantastic step in the right directions. Once the hardware interfaces are human rated this could be the next big step in technology. Everything from the classic idea of a teleoperated space probe to prosthetics limbs could be realized with something like this.
(Thank you agent Greg for this update)