Posted on 02/20/2023 7:52:43 AM PST by BenLurkin
A breakthrough in artificial intelligence being tested by the Australian military reportedly allows soldiers to control robot dogs solely with their minds.
Called a brain robotic interface, the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence — through a high-tech biosensor headset — analyzes brainwave readings and feeds them from a person’s visual cortex into the advanced “robodog,” Newsflash reported.
The current key to keeping the bots on course are flickering beacons — seen as augmented reality in the headsets — which work as waypoints that the canine-like automatons move toward.
“You don’t have to think anything specific to operate the robot, but you do need to focus on that flicker,” Robinson said. “It’s more of a visual concentration thing.”
So far, the dog — manufactured by Ghost Robotics — is capable of nine different commands during a fixed time, according to Prof. Chin-Teng Lin.
Doing so came via a breakthrough that minimized noise from both an operator’s environment and their own body.
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‘The HoloLens’ unprecedented efficiency comes by way of an ultra-thin compound known as graphene, which is described as being “many times stronger than steel, yet incredibly lightweight and flexible.”
]“We’ve been able to combine the best of graphene, which is very biocompatible and very conductive, with the best of silicon technology, which makes our biosensor very resilient and robust to use,” said Professor Francesca Iacopi, a fellow project leader.’
Yeah. That’s gonna work better than game console controller or the like.../s
You know what this means!!!
Telepathic sexbots coming soon!!!
Now, where have I heard that before?
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Nice Harlan Ellison reference!
Telepathic cats would be nice, too!
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Cats would just tell you to go to hell.
Predictive programming by the shadow global government, designed to cause despair in the smelly masses.
Yeah those random thoughts can be killer. We need Asimov's 3 laws but for sexbots.
Actually they look like they would work pretty well as written. Maybe #4: a robot must protect the privacy of telepathic thought.
Is that a robotic stink bug?
My wife never has forgiven me for convincing her to watch that movie with me!
(That, and “A Clockwork Orange”...she says she can cannot enjoy “Singing In the Rain” ever again...)
My cats are already telepathic. If I make a move for the kitty treats, they magically appear out of thin air.
Australian soldiers?
Those dogs are going to fetch sooooo much beer.
Soldier needs his hands for weapon and other stuff.
It doesn't require a highly sophisticated brain interface to detect the raw visual response. Coded pulses of light hitting the eyes would be detectable as spikes.
The operator chooses which icon to focus his eyes on, and the pulse code associated with that icon is detected in the brain. The eyes can move pretty fast to select a sequence of coded commands if needed.
The interface will ultimately be used to control a group of robots (aka a swarm), and the actions of the individual robots in the swarm will be algorithmic.
All done by eye movemnts. Look ma, no hands!
Swarm of death robots controlled by eye movement...what could go wrong?
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