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Day of the cyborgs: US Army is developing muscle-bound, Terminator-like war robots that use LIVING TISSUE in place of actuators
https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^
| 19 January 2021
| By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Posted on 01/23/2021 4:17:55 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
The Army Research Laboratory wants to grow living muscles for robots The team says the living tissue would replace actuators that hold joints This would give robots similar agility and versatility to biological systems The goal of this project is to create robots that can travel where humans can't
Combining living tissue with cold metal robots may sound like a plot from the James Cameron film 'Terminator,' but the idea is being developed for real-world machines at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
The US military group is working on a series of 'biohybrid robotics' that integrates living organisms into mechanical systems that 'produces never-seen-before agility and versatile.'
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dna; extinction; reset
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To: RomanSoldier19
Living tissue? Good! Easier to kill.
To: RomanSoldier19
Any of them look like Ahnald?
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01/23/2021 4:20:18 PM PST
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Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: RomanSoldier19
What could possibly go wrong?
To: Antihero101607
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01/23/2021 4:33:11 PM PST
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RomanSoldier19
(Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
To: RomanSoldier19
SKYNET IS (almost) HERE
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01/23/2021 4:40:58 PM PST
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Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: RomanSoldier19
Huge promise in the sex toy industry!
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01/23/2021 4:53:36 PM PST
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ProtectOurFreedom
(Democracy Dies With Democrats)
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...
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01/23/2021 4:56:39 PM PST
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bitt
(Joe Biden has managed to take everything that is wrong with DC bureacracy and fit it into 1 cabinet)
To: RomanSoldier19
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01/23/2021 5:01:00 PM PST
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DarthVader
(Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Iām sure drudge will be running that non-stop.
To: RomanSoldier19
Reminds me of IN HIS IMAGE. Twilight Zone episode.
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01/23/2021 5:10:12 PM PST
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.) )
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I think Little Annie Fanny (Playboy)fell in love with one of these monsters.
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01/23/2021 5:11:14 PM PST
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.) )
To: RomanSoldier19
Can I order a Cameron model?
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01/23/2021 5:12:11 PM PST
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RandallFlagg
(Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
To: Jim W N
Have we learned nothing from futuristic apocalypse movies?
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01/23/2021 5:23:31 PM PST
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seowulf
To: RomanSoldier19
Daily Mail sensationalistic clickbait garbage masquerading as news.
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01/23/2021 5:30:51 PM PST
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Flick Lives
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To: RomanSoldier19
The Army Research Laboratory wants to grow living muscles for robots Sci-fi is becoming reality. This, along with 3-D printing of living tissue, 3-D flexible electronics printing, and AI advancements are creating smarter robots. I invested in some companies' stock that is creating technology in these areas, and they're doubling in value every month. Hopefully the peaceful uses outpace the military uses.
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01/23/2021 5:36:55 PM PST
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roadcat
To: RandallFlagg
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01/23/2021 5:47:24 PM PST
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GreenLanternCorps
(Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
To: RandallFlagg
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01/23/2021 5:51:34 PM PST
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BipolarBob
(USA - Born July 4, 1776. Died Jan. 20, 2021 in the Year of our Covid - a new error.)
To: seowulf
"Have we learned nothing from futuristic apocalypse movies?"
My first thought was of the Borg Queen grafting human tissue on to Data as a means of trying to take him over.
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01/23/2021 5:57:34 PM PST
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Truth29
To: roadcat
Disappointing.
Living tissue requires biological nutrition, thereby introducing new and additional design complexity. Living tissue would be susceptible to disease and aging, thereby introducing sustainment complexity.
I was hoping that the “living tissue” being referred to would actually be the elastomer plastic announced some years ago that would contract and relax in response to electric current. It sounded like a lead toward the development of artificial muscle fibers. That, of course, would be a tremendous development for robotics.
It could also lead toward greatly improved limb prosthetics that could be directly connected to the amputee’s nervous system. It would be better than Star Wars.
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01/23/2021 6:34:06 PM PST
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Captain Rhino
(Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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