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2007-06-01 Science
DARPA to create brain-chipped cyborg moths
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Posted by Flinese Whutch1826 2007-06-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 Though well-intentioned, their experiments would one day lead to a terrifying result.
Posted by Mike 2007-06-01 06:16||   2007-06-01 06:16|| Front Page Top

#2 At least it's a good job that there's no skynet.

SHIT!

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=392522007
Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-06-01 07:00||   2007-06-01 07:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Paging Mothra to the white courtesy phone.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-06-01 07:51||   2007-06-01 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 The reporter needs to have his bias chip removed.
Posted by 3dc 2007-06-01 08:22||   2007-06-01 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Lots of robotics research in the last few years on how insects fly, recognize food etc. It's been sucessful, but not as efficient as the real thing so far. This is just one more cut at the issue.

Give it a couple years and the jihadis should (if they're savvy) start getting paranoid whenever a bug flies through the window or crawls across the wall. Watch out for those birds in the tree out there too, and the 'lizard' that just crawled up and out on the limb.

The question of autonomy is going to be the hot policy issue in robotics soon, as in over the next few years. Autonomy is pretty much moving beyond the technical issue of constructing robotic systems or hybrids that can move without direct operator command. Soon the policy issue will be what they are allowed to decide and do with little or no human judgement in the loop.

Aan aside, knowing the seminal role of Rodney Brooks and MIT's CSAIL in robotics, I'm pretty sure he didn't bother "waving his arms wildly around" when interviewed. idiot reporter.
Posted by occasional observer 2007-06-01 10:01||   2007-06-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 What a way to die, being killed by a remote controlled bug! YEESH
Posted by Ulavimp Dingle7880 2007-06-01 11:30||   2007-06-01 11:30|| Front Page Top

#7 I think it's great. Can't you just see the jihadis running around swatting moths and stomping rats in a paranoid fit?
Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-01 12:50||   2007-06-01 12:50|| Front Page Top

#8 If they do, bigjim-ky, no doubt the disease rate will go down significantly in their communities -- at least until they all die of strokes and heart attacks from the unremitting stress. Rather like when Mao decreed every Chinaman had to bring in x dead flies per day... only without the coercion and the lies.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-01 14:19||   2007-06-01 14:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Mosura ya Mosura
Dongan kasakuyan Indo muu
Rusuto uiraadoa
Hanba hanbamuyan
Randa banunradan Tounjukanraa
Kasaku yaanmu!
Posted by The Peanuts 2007-06-01 14:55|| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra#Mothra.27s_Fairies_.28Shobijin.2C_Cosmos.2C_and_Elias.29]">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra#Mothra.27s_Fairies_.28Shobijin.2C_Cosmos.2C_and_Elias.29]  2007-06-01 14:55|| Front Page Top

#10 I'll bet if you combine HI-MEMS with Bush's Hunter/Killer Dolphins and the Divine Spiders of Allah, you could probably rule the world...
Posted by tu3031 2007-06-01 15:21||   2007-06-01 15:21|| Front Page Top

#11 I heard that they've perfected the moth and are now working on a new system that can kill 90% of terrorists where they sleep! It's an exploding bat.
Posted by gorb 2007-06-01 15:44||   2007-06-01 15:44|| Front Page Top

#12 I heard that they've perfected the moth

Nothing a really big candle can't cure.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-06-01 16:01||   2007-06-01 16:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Now I understand why the Belgian Army is at war with the procession caterpillars - DARPA's moths have gotten loose and reproduced!
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2007-06-01 18:49||   2007-06-01 18:49|| Front Page Top

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