Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Son of SAN - Storage Networking Technologies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (4739)	3/13/2004 12:27:35 AM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Gov't Pushing for Research on Robotics Fri Mar 12, 1:43 PM ET Add Technology - AP to My Yahoo! By CHARLES SHEEHAN, Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH - The success of unmanned drones that have proven their mettle in combat since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has prompted an unprecedented push for new research at universities with advanced robotics laboratories. Robotics and mechanical engineering departments report an influx of cash from the Department of Defense (news - web sites) to build land vehicles, boats and aircraft that don't need soldiers, sailors or pilots to operate them. story.news.yahoo.com --------- A number of researchers said that the Sept. 11 attacks and the ensuing strife in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Iraq (news - web sites) have resulted in unparalleled advances in robotic research. "If 9/11 had never happened, we'd probably just be tooling around like we used to," Michelson said. --------- I could picture dropping a few hundred or even a few thousand, small 1 foot long planes with 3D video cameras, over an urban combat zone and having them remotely controlled by soldiers (with 3D visors) pointing lasers at targets and launching bombs electromagnetically from tubes on the back of armored trucks 5 miles away. The bombs could glide into their targets following the laser pointers and GPS programming (assigned automatically to each bomb when it's launched). I think this would be highly effective and would be so quiet the enemy would never know what hit em, or which direction it was coming from, especially at night. JW