Showing posts with label DARPA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DARPA. Show all posts

Friday, July 3, 2009

Pentagon's Robotic Hummingbird

Coincidence maybe.

Last night I read a brief article about the successful testing and effectiveness of bats as incendiary devices during WWI. Timing their hibernation, their awakening, and flight patterns loaded with detonators. How they eventually lost funding to large scale atomic weaponry.

This morning I read of Hummingbird robots:Darpa, the Pentagon's advanced-research unit--AKA, the place where they develop Men In Black technology--is working on a flapping robo-sentinel. The first-ever hovering air vehicle to use flapping wings while carrying its own power source. The hope is that the hummingbird will be useful for indoor and outdoor surveillance, as well as dropping off listening devices and other super-spy cargo. Click here for the video.

This is clearly a project Matt should be working on.