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DARPA's 'Avatar project' to give soldiers surrogate robots 
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/19/darp ... te-robots/

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Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:15 pm
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This bit from an earlier article made me smile:

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The quote from the job posting which is raising eyebrows around here says that the bot should be able to "hold an inert grenade with one hand, and pull the pin with the other hand" without any direction from humans. Now, we're not really trying to hit the alarmist angle, and we're all for advancements in robot tech... but it seems to us we'd have less to worry about if the job posting had said "should be able to hold a kitten in one hand, and pet it with the other."

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Note there doesn't seem to be any stated requirement to be able to throw the grenade :lol:


Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:34 pm
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