USA's 'Robomilitary' program., page 1
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Topic started on 20-12-2003 @ 03:44 PM by bensrob
This BBC news report explains the fact that the american goverment have started to fund a program run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa).
news.bbc.co.uk...
If you don't know what an exoskeleton is or how it works i'd look here.
www.howstuffworks.com...

A quote from Dr Ephrahim Garcia, co-ordinator of the exoskeleton project states:
"The controls, the power requirements, the human interface to the machine are all things that we do not know if we can do yet,"

They are paying $50,000,000 to build a program which in all probabillity will not work. The complexities of such a gear are so much they are almost unthinkable. A main problem is geting the exoskeleton to work with the body. This means they would have to directly link it to the brain or the spinal cord.

This cannot be done.

The brain is too complex to understand to such an extent to make this gear posible. Even now scientists do not fully understand the brain and an error conecting the exoskeleton to the brain would result in paralasis or death. Good idea but it wouldn't work.

But yet again you do have to admire the americans, funding a suicidal research program.
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