{"id":5398,"date":"2008-06-08T08:41:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T08:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2008-06-08T08:41:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T08:41:53","slug":"bae-systems-to-create-insecticons-for-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/bae-systems-to-create-insecticons-for-military\/","title":{"rendered":"BAE Systems to Create Insecticons for Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The military is in the market for insect robots. Nothing new, really.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8CM-H3rRkxQ&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8CM-H3rRkxQ&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>The robots will slither and crawl around corners, into caves, and through booby-trapped streets, sending images back to screens in a command center or to a screen mounted on a soldiers wrist. The purpose is to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eis.na.baesystems.com\/video\/ast_mast1.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">extend the warfighter&#8217;s senses and reach, providing operational capabilities that would otherwise be costly, impossible, or deadly to achieve<\/a>,&#8221; says Joseph Mait, MAST cooperative agreement manager for the Army Research Laboratory. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t a &#8220;warfighter&#8221; be a person fighting &#8220;against&#8221; a war and not &#8220;in&#8221; the war?<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekologie.com\/2008\/05\/no_seriously_i_really_mean_it.php\" class=\"external external_icon\">geekologie<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military is in the market for insect robots. Nothing new, really. The robots will slither and crawl around corners, into caves, and through booby-trapped streets, sending images back to screens in a command center or to a screen mounted on a soldiers wrist. The purpose is to &#8220;extend the warfighter&#8217;s senses and reach, providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,77,7],"tags":[163,123,106,97,162,164,4927],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots","category-the-future","category-video","tag-mav","tag-metal","tag-naming-things","tag-pessimists","tag-robot-rebellion","tag-transformers","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}