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Could Remote-Controlled Cyborg Insects Be Used As Spies?

NRM writes "Forget micro camera systems, insanely-compact audio surveillance devices and night-vision goggles – scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are currently researching a probe that can be implanted into moths to control their flight, alluding to the possibility of insects being used in the future as spies. Though it's the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that has invested heavily in a programme to develop 'machine-insect interfaces' for years, Joel Voldman and colleagues of MIT have collaborated to design a unique, flexible neural probe that attaches directly to an insect's ventral nerve cord (VNC)..."

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DARPA Gamebreaker aims to train military AI systems on open world video games

AI Business: The US defense research agency is looking to use video games to train an AI capable of “developing winning warfighting strategies.”

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aibusiness.com
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DARPA is Working on an Anonymous Mobile Communication System

According to an information document on Dr. Joshua Baron's supporters' day, DARPA is working on an anonymous mobile communication system

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projectwithcode.com
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Military pilots can control three jets at once via a neural implant

Earlier this month, DARPA, the U.S. military’s research division, unveiled a project that it had been working on since 2015: technology that grants one person the ability to pilot multiple planes and drones with their mind.

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ajax172043d ago

And this is just what they're letting the public have knowledge of; I can't even imagine what they are working on that we don't know about.

SpringHeeledJack2040d ago

Strange how those so called "nut job" witnesses and ex military all said downed UFO craft were controlled via the occupants minds and technology is drip fed to US research departments and low and behold decades later we get the technology they talked about.

annoyedgamer2040d ago

Now all we need is massive nuclear powered mechs and giant crab-monsters.