(Activist Post) The latest war machine headed to Ukraine’s front lines isn’t a flying drone but a miniature 4×4 ground-based robot — equipped with a machine gun.
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Five of the World’s Tiniest Robots
(Joao Filipe Ferreira) Allow me to take you on a trip down my memory lane. As a young lad, a film I saw captured my imagination: Fantastic Voyage, a 1966 release about people shrunk to microscopic size and sent into the body of an injured scientist to repair his brain. The idea struck a chord with me. I envisioned one day science would be able to create some sort of miniature machine that performs medical procedures from the inside.
Watch: Autonomous Chinese Drone Swarm Flies Through Forest While Hunting For Humans
(Activist Post) A swarm of micro-drones autonomously navigated a dense bamboo forest in China without GPS, able to avoid trees, branches, and brush. The incredible footage suggests these drones could one day be used for search and rescue efforts or even put to sinister use: hunting humans.
Dallas Airport Deploys Giant Robots to Catch Unmasked Travelers
(Abby Liebing) As air travel is getting back to pre-pandemic levels and airports are getting busy, travelers are still having to mask.
AI Is Writing A Play About ‘The Birth of Robotics’ And Human Writers Should Be Worried
(Jake Anderson) Algorithmic artificial intelligence (AI) has been used for years to generate artwork – everything from stories to punk rock albums and classical music – but a new theatrical play may take the cake as for creative pursuits by machine intelligence.
Elves, Guides, Robots and Aliens: The Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelic Entity Encounters
(Nikki Harper) As psychedelic research continues to come of age, following decades of shunning, evidence is mounting that psychedelic drugs can have positive therapeutic effects. As we have previously reported here on Wake Up World, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and MDMA (ecstasy) have both recently been granted Breakthrough Status by the FDA, a designation given to drugs with clinically significant and potentially far reaching benefits. Psilocybin is heading towards phase 3 human trials as a treatment for major depressive disorder, while MDMA is close to approval as a PTSD treatment.
US Police Have Quietly Brought a “Terrifying” Robot Dog Into Their Ranks
(Elias Marat) Police in the United States have quietly begun integrating advanced robots into officers’ ranks, raising alarm among civil liberties advocates and police watchdogs in the country.
Walmart Just Filed Six Patents for Robot Bees – and it Sounds Like an Episode Straight out of Black Mirror
(Ethan Huff) As honeybees and other vital pollinators continue their decline into what looks like total extinction, the Walmart corporation appears to be in the process of developing artificial bee “robots” that will presumably one day be used to pollinate plants.