The U.S. Army Is Creating Robots with Synthetically Grown Muscle

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47 points·bookofjoe··13 comments

"Underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis,microprocessor-controlled, fully armored. Very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue."

Here's a short video about the manufacturing process for the synthetic muscle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUFXXB08RZk

Unlike Terminator 2, we do not need to reverse engineer machines from the future. We can just reverse engineer animals.

In this case a different approach to building a cybernetic organism, it's living tissue under metal exoskeleton.

It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with...it doesn't feel pity of remorse or fear...and it absolutely will not stop.Ever.

>Army strengthens future tech with muscle-bound robots

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/uarl-asf1217...

This should probably be the link for the thread. It's the source for the article currently linked.

I'm consistently amazed at how rapidly technology has progressed in 20 short years. Look how long it took us to get from the Vitruvian Man in ~1,500 to barely performing surgery in the early 1900's.

This is pretty incredible.

I think about that a lot with respect to human flight. From the first powered flight all the way to the moon and back in less than one typical human lifetime. That's insane. Utterly.

I’ll be back...

"It's not a suit. The human inside was the final weakness. They're droids."

Comforting to know that a far more competent and less scrupulous government will have cybernetic abominations ready to sodomize me within 20 years.

Very light on any interesting or relevant details.

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