The USMC is developing a robot which employs non-lethal weapons against "angry crowds". Much is made of the sinister aspect of this new development, but it seems to me an improvement over the current military means of crowd control: deploying a bunch of nervous 18 year olds with live ammunition in their guns, and telling them not to shoot anyone unless shot at first. These robots will probably be very intimidating, even if all they do is make a lot of smoke and noise.

3:22:47 PM    comment

Humans and robots worked side-by-side this summer at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston to evaluate the concept of using human-robotic teams to improve the productivity of astronauts working outside the International Space Station, other space vehicles, or on the surface of other planets.

1:34:43 AM    comment