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Sat 31 Mar 2007 | 17h37 GMT+1
Info: www.fbo.gov
DARPA into T-1000 technology
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Technology as depicted in books and movies, tends (on the occasion) to become reality. One of the best examples of this is
Jules Verne's books. Written back in 1864, he and the people around him wouldn't have imagined it to become a reality just
around 100 years later. On July 20th 1969 at 10:56 PM EDT, Neil Armstrong uttered the now famous words "That's one small
step for man, one giant leap for mankind"... as he made history as the first man to walk on the moon.
Well... If its upto DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) some of these 'depicted' technologies need to be
explored sooner then later. In an effort to gain new technologies, they've launched a brief to any and all interested
parties that could make it possible for T-1000 technology to come from the imaginary world, into reality.
Project description (excerpts)
The ability to safely and covertly gain access to denied or hostile areas and perform useful tasks provides critical
advantages to warfighters over a broad spectrum of military operations. An effective and logistically attractive means
for gaining entry to denied areas is to deploy an unmanned platform, such as a robot. However, often the only available
points of entry are small openings in buildings, walls, under doors, etc. In these cases, a robot must be soft enough
to squeeze or traverse through small openings, yet large enough to carry an operationally meaningful payload. Current
robotic platforms are constructed primarily from hard materials and, while capable of locomotion with embedded payloads,
cannot change their physical dimensions to rapidly traverse arbitrary size/shape openings whose dimensions are much
smaller than the robot itself and are not known a-priori.
In response to this challenge, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative proposals
to develop Chemical Robots (ChemBots): soft, flexible, mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings
smaller than their static structural dimensions; reconstitute size, shape, and functionality after traversal; carry
meaningful payloads; and perform tasks. ChemBots represent the convergence of soft materials chemistry and robotics
to create a fundamentally new class of soft meso-scale robots that can perform the following key unit operations in
sequence:
- Travel a distance;
- Traverse an arbitrary-shaped opening much smaller than the largest characteristic dimension of the ChemBot;
- Reconstitute size, shape, and functionality after traversing the opening;
- Travel a distance; and
- Perform a function using the embedded payload.
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The first phase of this program focuses on the development of novel materials, material systems, and/or robot
architectures, that can both move and morph under the influence of an appropriate driving force (e.g., electromagnetic,
acoustic, chemical, etc.), as well as demonstration of a rudimentary meso-scale ChemBot. The specific Phase I milestone
is presented under Program Goals and Milestones.
Read full proposal/brief... here.
How cool is that!?
Way cool! Maybe a bit too cool. Or maybe uncool? DARPA moves to skip a few generations of Terminator models and goes straight
for the T-1000 technology. ChemBots, shape-shifting robotics. All we now need are some other guidelines to be added to their
project list.
- Shape-shifting into other objects of equal size
- Emulating its environment
- Travel back through time
On a more serious note, the idea that the government is putting serious funding behind such devices should come as no surprise.
So long as this ChemBot is following a prescribed set of instructions, the whole thing seems okay by us. But a few word of advice
can't hurt any of our (future) robotics researchers: Please don't let it start thinking for itself. And if you do, you'd better
keep a close eye on your helicopters ;).
In-depth reading
Interested in some big reads about Robotics or Future Today, how 'they' could(n't) come to life, how this DARPA idea of T-1000
technology could not work anyway? Then be sure to check our in-depth articles
section, including these great topics.
Robotics
- Robots That Spark Your Imagination
- New Make, New Model, New Mission
- T-1000 technology not scientifically possible
- Living tissue?!
- Robots becoming self-aware?!
Future Today
- Military Robots of the Future
- Robot Warriors May Win Future Wars
- US Military Robots Employed in Iraqi War
- Drone patrols over Mexican border
- The first generation of 'Skynet'?!
Click top link for DARPA's full project description!
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