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Dec 17, 2020

France Says It’s Working on Bionic Supersoldiers Because Everybody Else Is Doing It

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, ethics, military, transhumanism

The French military is starting exploratory work on the development of bionic supersoldiers, which officials describe as a necessary part of keeping pace with the rest of the world.

A military ethics committee gave its blessing to begin developing supersoldiers on Tuesday, according to The BBC, balancing the moral implications of augmenting and altering humanity with the desire to innovate and enhance the military’s capabilities. With the go-ahead, France joins countries like the U.S., Russia, and China that are reportedly attempting to give their soldiers high-tech upgrades.

Dec 16, 2020

Piloting A Real-Life Giant Exoskeleton Suit

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI

This Giant Four-Legged Robot Is Like Something Out Of A Science Fiction Film!! 😍 🤖

Dec 15, 2020

Why This Surgery Replaces Knee With Backwards Foot?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs

Rotationplasty is a bone cancer surgery for children that replaces the knee with a backwards foot so it can function as a knee joint for a prosthesis…

Dec 12, 2020

Stephen Langevin

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, education, life extension, robotics/AI, transhumanism

I just read an incredible post about Transhumanism by Francesco Neo Amati, CM of Transhumanism: The Future of Humanity.

What an excellent representation of how pragmatic and collaborative our community can be. People like Francesco Neo Amati are the reason why I call myself a Transhumanist…

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Dec 9, 2020

French army gets ethical go-ahead for bionic soldiers

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, ethics, military, neuroscience, transhumanism

The French armed forces now have permission to develop “augmented soldiers” following a report from a military ethics committee.

The report, released to the public on Tuesday, considers medical treatments, prosthetics and implants that improve “physical, cognitive, perceptive and psychological capacities,” and could allow for location tracking or connectivity with weapons systems and other soldiers.

Dec 8, 2020

Hackers Breached Israeli Water Reservoir HMI System

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, cyborgs, internet

Hackers with possible links to Iran appear to have breached an unprotected human-machine interface system at an Israeli water reservoir that connected directly to the internet and lacked security protocols, according to industrial cybersecurity firm Otorio.

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The security firm reports that the alleged Iranian hacking group, referred to as “Unidentified TEAM,” published a video of the attack on an unnamed reclaimed Israeli water reservoir human-machine interface (HMI) system, which did not require any authentication to access and modify the system. This allowed the threat actors to tamper with the water pressure, change temperatures and more.

Dec 8, 2020

This ‘Artificial Skin’ May Help Troops Stay Invisible, Even to Heat Sensors

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, military

Invisible troops are closer than you think! Check out the next-gen ‘artificial skin’ of future warfare.

Dec 8, 2020

Scientists make artificial skin for robots, taking us one step closer to a world of androids

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI

Scientists from around the world are developing robotic skin that helps machines gain the sense of touch. It’s estimated that robots will displace 20 million human workers by 2030.

Dec 7, 2020

Researchers Invent Material That Could Create Invisibility Cloak

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, materials

Cloak engaged.

Dec 3, 2020

Camouflage Skin Developed That Provides On-Demand Cloaking in Both Daylight and Night

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Thermally controlled, active imperceptible artificial skin in visible-to-infrared range.

Cephalopods’ exceptional ability to hide into any background has inspired researchers to replicate their fascinating ability to camouflage in the infrared (IR) and visible spectrum. Recent advances offered a number of physical mechanisms to reproduce the cloaking functionalities of cephalopods. However, most of works focused on either camouflaging in the visible or IR camouflage range only: not dual modes in a single device structure that can readily switch between the visible and IR mode according to a suitable situation.

Recently, Prof. Seung hwan Ko’s group in Seoul National University in Republic of Korea demonstrated the visible-to-IR active ands camouflage skin that provides an on-demand cloaking platform both in daylight and at night with a single input variable: Temperature (T). The soft thermoelectric device that is capable of active cooling and heating serves as a backbone structure to fine-tune the surface of each pixel and thereby enables thermal camouflage in the IR range by matching the ambient temperature. The Ko’s group further extended the camouflage range to the IR-to-visible spectrum by incorporating thermochromic liquid crystal at the surface that changes light reflectance ® based on the device temperature, enabling the expressing a variety of colors by controling temperature. The camouflage system as a whole encompasses the two independent spectrums into a ‘full spectrum’ with a single soft structure by controlling temperature.

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