Military's Cyborg Menagerie
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Remote-controlled flying rats were only the beginning. Armies are drafting everything from bugs to sharks to chickens into
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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Plan to install bottled brains in 'cyborg machines' Israeli boffins may be on the road to building artificial, living human brains which can function without a body to support them. Honest.â¦
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The military needs the power to run electronic gear such as radios, night vision goggles and satellite-navigation tools.
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Multiple-personality droid dog; mad science indeed DARPA, the Pentagon research bureau which likes to put the battiness back into battle-boffinry, is pressing ahead with its robot dog/packmule/mini-Imperial-Walker programme.â¦
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Devices that measure helmet impacts, play-calling software, even swallowable temperature sensors are becoming realities.
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Japan is pretty serious about robotics. If the droids are going to fit in, they probably need to learn the Japanese custom of serving tea.
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Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology.
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The U.S. Army has plans to let robots handle war's dirty work.
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The military has been working for years on a pain ray that heats up the skin, sending crowds running.  Wired News' Sharon Weinberger decides to find out what the screams are all about -- and gets zapped herself.
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Hollywood visual effects wizards and video game programmers: U.S. military doctors want you.
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The Pentagon predicts that robots will be a major fighting force in the American military in less than a decade.
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The war in Iraq has proven the lethal effectiveness of roadside bombs. But the war has also proven the value of a new tool to deal with the bombs: small, agile robots that disarm or detonate the bombs at the direction of soldiers who operate the robots from a safe distance.
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US researchers show that a computer can be controlled by the brain without the need for implants.
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.
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The US military develops a robot teddy bear to carry injured soldiers away from the battlefield.
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The Army's multibillion-dollar modernization program, the Future Combat System, faces serious challenge this year.