Posted on 10/16/2021 12:10:58 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Chinese researchers from a military-linked university have completed the first open sea test in the Paracel Islands of a bionic robot that looks and swims like a manta ray, Chinese media reported.
Countries disputing China’s claims in the South China Sea, no doubt, will be watching closely the development of this sophisticated drone.
The state-run China Daily quoted developers from the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) in Xi’an as saying that this is the world’s first bionic unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to accomplish a more than 1,000-meter dive in the open sea, including gliding and flapping wing propulsion. They added that it would “play an important role in marine environmental protection.”
But such innovation would likely be utilized for military purposes, too.
“Most good robotics inventions [since the first robots] have ended up with military uses,” Noel Sharkey, emeritus professor of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, told Radio Free Asia (RFA), a sister entity of BenarNews.
Professor Alexandre Vuving at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), a U.S. Department of Defense institute based in Hawaii, agreed.
“China will use these biomimetic robots for military purposes. This is consistent with their military-civil fusion strategy,” he told RFA.
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They added that it would “play an important role in marine environmental protection.”
thats’s because china cares so much about fish and marine life </s>
3,000 vessel Chinese fishing fleet seen from space off the coast of South America
https://rumble.com/vmx7pt-3000-vessel-chinese-fishing-fleet-seen-from-space-off-the-coast-of-south-am.html
“They added that it would ‘play an important role in marine environmental protection.’”
Seems Asia is good about not telling the truth. This is just like the supercomputers Clinton sent to North Korea in the late 90’s to help them with agriculture and they immediately changed them so they could process uranium.
wy69
We had these back in the 60s on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Are they ill-tempered?
The Paracel Islands are by history (maps and occupation)and propinquity the property of Viet Nam. They are occupied illegally. There is only one major island and it could be wiped out, both literally and figuratively, with ease.
I think James Bond had one of those 50 years ago.
Soon enough we can expect to find a manta ray spy drone lying in the mud in every one of our major seaports.
bkmk
LOL! First thing I thought of as well.
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