Robotics

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This page is a natural progression from Bongard Pattern Recognition Puzzles/Problems -- to Artificial Intelligence = AI
===and Machine Learning (including Androids, Actroids, and Drones) -- to DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USA Government). Robotics: including the articles about promoting teenager involvement in R & D (Research and Development) of "Better Robots" and the [|DARPA "Cheetah" robot program/project] -- to today's online news, March 1, 2011: about DARPA's new engineering achievement via the[| AeroVironment Corporation] contract which developed a working model, a real remote controlled "Hummingbird Spy Robot" (Drone) that is already functional and can be manufactured...===



The way the world is, and has been for centuries, is that Military Priorities often drive Engineering Research and Development...
===and if Laboratory Research and Development occurs of its own accord, it will immediately be Engineered for Governmental, Industrial, Commercial, and even Personal use... such as Ancient Battle Use of Catapults, Metallurgy to build Cannons, Alfred Nobel's invention=== ===of Dynamite, Airplanes for Warfare, and now Robotics for Warfare and National Security, and most current in the news: Drones for military, commercial, and even personal use. In the 20th century, as Industry and Technology revolutionized our "Way of Life" on a Global Scale, the concept and phrase "The Military-Industrial Complex" became commonly accepted... and that is the "Way It Is..." now...===

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950's, publicly cautioned Government and Industry Leaders about this
===growing-out-of-control "Arms Race"... And he used the emerging influence of the United Nations, as an International Governance Organization to promote and pursue International Treaties and Sanctions for resolving conflicts, wars, humanitarian crises, etc...===

Wednesday March 2. 2011
=[|Robotics for Heart Surgery]: A Technology Innovation with Amazing Results=