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ATTACK OF THE SUPER-STRENGTH CYBORG PENGUINS
Some headlines can’t be improved upon. Neither can some ledes:
ITEM [via Danger Room]: Military researchers are building mechanical suits that provide superstrength and inhuman endurance. Next up: an undersea exoskeleton that turns the wearer into a giant, cyborg penguin.
The Performance Improving Self Contained Exoskeleton for Swimming ("PISCES") is the work of Peter Neuhaus and Jerry Pratt at the University of West Florida's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. They’ve been looking at various bio-inspired systems based on animal propulsion, and borrowed design features from dolphins, sea turtles and penguins.
The exoskeletons aren’t necessarily intended for military use, but their work was cited in a recent Pentagon report on “the threat of technological surprise”, which highlighted "devices that have been designed to improve or extend human performance in the physical domain" as an area of rapid development.
Which means someone at the Pentagon may actually be looking at creating an underwater army of superfrogmen.
Well, at least they’re not using actual penguins to create radio-controlled penguinborgs. You know, like they’re doing with sharks.
Calling Tony Stark,
This is dF
ITEM [via Danger Room]: Military researchers are building mechanical suits that provide superstrength and inhuman endurance. Next up: an undersea exoskeleton that turns the wearer into a giant, cyborg penguin.
The Performance Improving Self Contained Exoskeleton for Swimming ("PISCES") is the work of Peter Neuhaus and Jerry Pratt at the University of West Florida's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. They’ve been looking at various bio-inspired systems based on animal propulsion, and borrowed design features from dolphins, sea turtles and penguins.
The exoskeletons aren’t necessarily intended for military use, but their work was cited in a recent Pentagon report on “the threat of technological surprise”, which highlighted "devices that have been designed to improve or extend human performance in the physical domain" as an area of rapid development.
Which means someone at the Pentagon may actually be looking at creating an underwater army of superfrogmen.
Well, at least they’re not using actual penguins to create radio-controlled penguinborgs. You know, like they’re doing with sharks.
Calling Tony Stark,
This is dF
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This is exactly the kind of work I wanted to do when I started by Bachelor of Cognitive Science degree at University. My other choice was Prosthetics. I was, at one point, enrolled in a postgraduate course in robotics... but they canceled that year because I was the only one.
Now I'm depressed.
Fucking Australia. The coolest bit of hardware we ever built is the Collins Class Submarine--famous because they leak, they doesn't go very fast, and they make a lot of noise.
-- JF
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