This Woman Flew an F-35 Simulator with Her Mind

[slgrieb]

Interesting story from defensetech.org. "Jan Scheuermann, a quadriplegic and pioneering patient for an experimental Pentagon robotics program, continues to break ground in freeing the mind from the body.
The 55-year-old mother of two in 2012 agreed to let surgeons implant electrodes on her brain to control a robotic arm. More recently, she flew an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter simulator using nothing but her thoughts, an official said.
Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, cited the breakthrough last week at the first annual Future of War conference. The event was organized by the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan research group in Washington, D.C."

The research is taking place at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.


Read more: http://defensetech.org/2015/03/02/th...#ixzz3TM3mcgxf
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[Larommi]

but did she shoot the gun?

[Mobile PC]

But did the plane take off???

[slgrieb]

But did the plane take off???

Actually, she was able to fly the simulator. Not so sure about landing, however. Still, between the work with the robotic arm and the simulator, I think this is pretty interesting technology.

[slgrieb]

but did she shoot the gun?

Unlikely, since even the real aircraft can't, I don't think that capability would be available in the simulator. In other good news, the Small Bomb II can't fit in the internal weapon bay of the Marine F-35B variant. But, no worries, that is expected to be fixed by 2022. Anyway, the SDB II is still in development, and who needs a glide bomb with pinpoint guidance?

[ilovetheusers]

If you have not watched "ghost in the shell" (the movie and the tv series), give it a whirl.

[slgrieb]

If you have not watched "ghost in the shell" (the movie and the tv series), give it a whirl.

Great anime when they don't get bogged down in the long winded expositions typical of "intellectual" anime. But I have to admit that the scene in (I think Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C.) where the Tachikomas debate the nature of consciousness is priceless.