{"id":14842,"date":"2015-06-16T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14842"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:56:22","slug":"the-pentagons-gamble-on-brain-implants-bionic-limbs-and-combat-exoskeletons-sara-reardon-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-pentagons-gamble-on-brain-implants-bionic-limbs-and-combat-exoskeletons-sara-reardon-nature","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon\u2019s gamble on brain implants, bionic limbs and combat exoskeletons \u2014 Sara Reardon | Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biological Technologies Office (BTO), which opened in April 2014, aims to support extremely ambitious \u2014 some say fantastical \u2014 technologies ranging from powered exoskeletons for soldiers to brain implants that can control mental disorders. DARPA\u2019s plan for tackling such projects is being carried out in the same frenetic style that has defined the agency\u2019s research in other fields.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/the-pentagon-s-gamble-on-brain-implants-bionic-limbs-and-combat-exoskeletons-1.17726\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Biological Technologies Office (BTO), which opened in April 2014, aims to support extremely ambitious \u2014 some say fantastical \u2014 technologies ranging from powered exoskeletons for soldiers to brain implants that can control mental disorders. DARPA\u2019s plan for tackling such projects is being carried out in the same frenetic style that has defined the agency\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1513,11,1499,14,38,1490,1495,9,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bionic","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-defense","category-engineering","category-government","category-health","category-military","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64668,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842\/revisions\/64668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}