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The Pentagon Wants You—Yes, You!—to Develop a Life-Saving Robot [Robots]
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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2103053" data-attributes="member: 246624"><p><strong>[PLAIN]The Pentagon Wants You&mdash;Yes, You!&mdash;to Develop a Life-Saving Robot [Robots][/PLAIN]</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/thumb160x_robot-dog.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Hey you! Be all that you can be! Help the U.S. military design an autonomous robot capable of ferrying injured troops from the front lines to safety with little or no help from a human hand:</p><p></p><p>It's no joke—direct from the Pentagon comes word that the Army wants someone out there, beyond its secretive five walls and uber secret underground lair, to develop a robot with powerful limbs and grippers that will be able to adapt to "the large number of body positions and types of locations in which casualties can be found."</p><p></p><p>Oh, and not that this is a surprise or anything, but the robot also needs to be able to enter, navigate and escape terrain "without prior knowledge" of the geography. Flying blind, so to speak. Finally, if the robot can perform as part of a hive mind, and cooperate with a swarm of other robot rescuers, that'd be just peachy with the military too. You have until March 24 to submit your life-saving ideas. [<a href="http://www.dodsbir.net/sitis/display_topic.asp?Bookmark=38345" target="_blank">Pentagon</a> via <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527495.200-robots-to-rescue-soldiers.html" target="_blank">New Scientist</a>]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><img src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:H0mrP-F8Qgo" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:yIl2AUoC8zA" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:D7DqB2pKExk" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:D7DqB2pKExk" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:V_sGLiPBpWU" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:V_sGLiPBpWU" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/EBKtu1ffl30" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2103053, member: 246624"] [b][PLAIN]The Pentagon Wants You—Yes, You!—to Develop a Life-Saving Robot [Robots][/PLAIN][/b] [IMG]http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/thumb160x_robot-dog.jpg[/IMG]Hey you! Be all that you can be! Help the U.S. military design an autonomous robot capable of ferrying injured troops from the front lines to safety with little or no help from a human hand: It's no joke—direct from the Pentagon comes word that the Army wants someone out there, beyond its secretive five walls and uber secret underground lair, to develop a robot with powerful limbs and grippers that will be able to adapt to "the large number of body positions and types of locations in which casualties can be found." Oh, and not that this is a surprise or anything, but the robot also needs to be able to enter, navigate and escape terrain "without prior knowledge" of the geography. Flying blind, so to speak. Finally, if the robot can perform as part of a hive mind, and cooperate with a swarm of other robot rescuers, that'd be just peachy with the military too. You have until March 24 to submit your life-saving ideas. [[URL="http://www.dodsbir.net/sitis/display_topic.asp?Bookmark=38345"]Pentagon[/URL] via [URL="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527495.200-robots-to-rescue-soldiers.html"]New Scientist[/URL]] [URL="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1"][IMG]http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1[/IMG][/URL][IMG]http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226[/IMG][URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:H0mrP-F8Qgo"][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo[/IMG][/URL] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:yIl2AUoC8zA"][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA[/IMG][/URL] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:D7DqB2pKExk"][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:D7DqB2pKExk[/IMG][/URL] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:V_sGLiPBpWU"][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=EBKtu1ffl30:N6lmb12jwt0:V_sGLiPBpWU[/IMG][/URL] [IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/EBKtu1ffl30[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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