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And getting back to the concerns I have with both the complete elimination of the need for human labour in any and all industrial settings in the near future... Here is a robotic machine that is showing us just how many manual labour jobs it can make obsolete as it concerns future manufacturing endeavours and the need for any human beings to perform them. Of course, just look at how easily this thing can be modified as a weapons platform; fully capable of firing everything from Blow-Guns with small portable Compressed Air Cylinders, to the Yeoman's Yew Long Bow that won the Battle at Agincourt. Now there was a weapon capable of hitting and killing a fully armoured French Knight right the f*ck off of his Destrier Horse from 500 feet away!
The men who carried and used the English Long Bow were later memorialised in Shakespeare's “Henry the 5th” as being just common butchers and bakers... and even candlestick makers; well schooled and practised in superior archery back in those times. Their diligent practice allowed them to develop the strength to knock an arrow and accurately fire it at will as they got strong enough and skilled enough to be able to get the call to war on a moment's notice and still be very effective killers at great distances. It was these men who comprised that “Band of Brothers” from England who conquered the French at Agincourt on St. Crispin's Day so many centuries ago.
The robot(s) depicted here will not need much practice to master these hard-won human archery skills. Just look at what this thing can do when throwing objects over three dimensional phased space with a variety of ballistic logarithms, trajectory calculations and untiringly precise motions to compensate for so many dynamic environmental variables and still be accurate in these many and sundry ways. Think of this thing being added as an upgrade of “Arms” to that little, subservient Asimo Robot:
And from Harvard's Design of Robotic Bees... Tiny, Flying Robots in search of “better sensors”. I wonder what would happen if they were directed to fly inside of a REAL Hornet's Nest. Dr. John Von Neumann's prescience about "Self-Replicating Machines" has obviously come true here:
The men who carried and used the English Long Bow were later memorialised in Shakespeare's “Henry the 5th” as being just common butchers and bakers... and even candlestick makers; well schooled and practised in superior archery back in those times. Their diligent practice allowed them to develop the strength to knock an arrow and accurately fire it at will as they got strong enough and skilled enough to be able to get the call to war on a moment's notice and still be very effective killers at great distances. It was these men who comprised that “Band of Brothers” from England who conquered the French at Agincourt on St. Crispin's Day so many centuries ago.
The robot(s) depicted here will not need much practice to master these hard-won human archery skills. Just look at what this thing can do when throwing objects over three dimensional phased space with a variety of ballistic logarithms, trajectory calculations and untiringly precise motions to compensate for so many dynamic environmental variables and still be accurate in these many and sundry ways. Think of this thing being added as an upgrade of “Arms” to that little, subservient Asimo Robot:
And from Harvard's Design of Robotic Bees... Tiny, Flying Robots in search of “better sensors”. I wonder what would happen if they were directed to fly inside of a REAL Hornet's Nest. Dr. John Von Neumann's prescience about "Self-Replicating Machines" has obviously come true here:
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