Noel Sharkey Professor of computer science is demonstrating autonomous behavior, evolution and swarming. His work might be more interesting from the point of view of evolution than it is for robotics.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Killer robots pose latest militant threat: expert | Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Killer robots could become the weapon of choice for militants, a British expert said on Wednesday.
Noel Sharkey, professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield said he believed falling costs would soon make robots a realistic option
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Air Force Technology - Neuron - Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle Demonstrator
Neuron is the European Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator for the development, integration and validation of UCAV technologies and is not for military operational deployment. Dassault unveiled a life-size model of Neuron at the 2005 Paris Air Show. The operational UCAV is expected to be a larger design than the Neuron demonstrator.
Air Force Technology - Neuron - Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle Demonstrator
Dying Satellite's Toxic Danger: Way, Way Low | Danger Room from Wired.com
This note backs my suspicion that this is a military maneuver.
I continue to maintain that the Bush Administration should make public the real calculations of the risk. NASA published such estimates, by the way, for the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory — placing the probability that someone would be killed in an uncontrolled deorbit at 1 in 1,000. (Thanks to Yousaf Butt at the Union of Concerned Scientists for pointing this out.)
Dying Satellite's Toxic Danger: Way, Way Low | Danger Room from Wired.com
US: Satellite Shoot-Down Not Offensive - washingtonpost.com
In a cable sent to all U.S. embassies abroad, diplomats were told to draw a clear distinction between the upcoming attempt and last year's test by China of a missile specifically designed to take out satellites, which was criticized by the United States and other countries.
"This particular action is different than any actions that, for example, the Chinese may have taken in testing an anti-satellite weapon," McCormack told reporters. "The missions are quite different and the technical aspects of the missions are quite different."
Other than intent, he said the key difference is that the Pentagon's planned shoot-down will be done at a much lower altitude than that of the Chinese, whose 2007 destruction of a satellite left a large debris field in orbit. The U.S. plan, it is hoped, will leave little in the way of debris that could complicate efforts to place future satellites in orbit.
U.S. officials said the satellite is carrying fuel called hydrazine that could injure or even kill people who are near it when it hits the ground. That reason alone, they said, persuaded President Bush to order the shoot-down.
For my own part, I believe this is an anti-satellite test in retaliation for the test by the Chinese. It is amazing that this hydrazine fuel that has been used many, many times comes up as an issue in this situation, and that we have no other solution than blowing the satellite to pieces.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
ABC News: New Weapon in U.S. Arsenal: 'Small' Bomb
The latest weapon in the arsenal of the U.S. Air Force is the Small Diameter Bomb, or SDB. As its names suggests, it is a very small bomb, carrying less than 40 pounds of explosives.
This is a reflection of a more information specific warfare.
ABC News: New Weapon in U.S. Arsenal: 'Small' Bomb
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