{"id":17614,"date":"2015-09-21T04:48:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T11:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/pentagons-project-avatar-same-as-the-movie-but-with-robots-instead-of-aliens"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:22:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:22:58","slug":"pentagons-project-avatar-same-as-the-movie-but-with-robots-instead-of-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/pentagons-project-avatar-same-as-the-movie-but-with-robots-instead-of-aliens","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon\u2019s Project \u2018Avatar\u2019: Same as the Movie, but With Robots Instead of Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagons-project-avatar-same-as-the-movie-but-with-robots-instead-of-aliens.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans\u2019 place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliterating its target.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve got Danger Room\u2019s taste in movies, you\u2019ve probably seen both ideas on the big screen. Now Darpa, the Pentagon\u2019s far-out research arm, wants to bring \u2019em into the real world.<\/p>\n<p>In the agency\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/02\/darpa-budget-death-ray\/\">$2.8 billion budget for 2013<\/a>, unveiled on Monday, they\u2019ve allotted $7 million for a project titled \u201cAvatar.\u201d The project\u2019s ultimate goal, not surprisingly, sounds a lot like the plot of the same-named (but much more expensive) flick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2012\/02\/darpa-sci-fi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans\u2019 place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliterating its target. If you\u2019ve got Danger Room\u2019s taste in movies, you\u2019ve probably seen both ideas on the big screen. Now Darpa, the Pentagon\u2019s far-out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69513,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions\/69513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}