Pentagon builds shape-shifting robot

Morphing cars and planes closer as Pentagon develops shape-shifting robot

One small step..

 

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Ooh. I can't wait 'till they get Robert Patrick to start doing all my dirty business.

~String

 

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The Pentagon/DARPA is also working on Zombie-pigs.


Try this one and this one.

 

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Dear god...not zombie pigs!! Haven't they played left 4 dead?

 

The funny thing is that one of the stories (not dated from 1947 though) of the 1947 Roswell incident was a material that kept flattening itself.

Imagine if you will, you generate lining for a spaceship, plane or the internal hull of a ship, should it be punctured the material attempts to bend back into shape, thereby limiting the hole or even fixing the puncture.

 

In such environments they would have to be incredibly strong. Take for example the internal hull of a ship. If the ship were punctured, the material would have to bend against the force of the water rushing through the hole. A tremendous force to push against.


And it reminded me of the Roswell material, too! Glad someone else knows about that... Maybe this material is where we got the inspiration to build this material? Some first-generation results of reverse engineering?

 

its nifty cos it is tiny
in any case dont airplane wings "shapeshift" when the flaps go up or down?

 

Not at all. It's a flap they're moving. It's like taking a piece of paper, making two parallel cuts about 1/3 through, and moving it. It's not shape-shifting, it's just moving up or down. It's just movement.

 

lemme expand and perhaps improve your explanation

not at all.
a flap is actually separate from the wing itself and as such does not constitute a "shapeshifting" when put in motion. the example in the op on the other hand constitutes a single and contiguous piece of material that can "deform" itself to programmed specifications

hows that?

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oops

i strongly disagree

the actual shape of the wing includes the area that is occupied by the flaps thus any positional change with regards to the flaps can be construed as "shapeshifting" by the wing as a whole

 

Flaps (trailing edge), slats (leading edge), dive brakes and spoilers all function by changing the essential shape of the wing (as far as the air flow is concerned).
NASA ran a series of tests on a Mission Adaptive Wing in an effort to eliminate so many moving parts but still achieving much the same effects.
Also, to a certain extent, so do swing wings. The wing's chord changes relative to the airflow, which alters the T/C ratio.

 

Are there any links to info on the shape shifting material at Roswell?

 

Just make the drones better for humans to fly with. We need not put humans into fighters when drones will do better, faster and cheaper.

 

and no one will care if they "die"

 

I doubt you'd find much "Evidence" on it, it's just one of the things that a claimed witness (Marcel) suggested they had seen, it was even suppose to have withstood some attempts at putting holes in it, but obviously this is me paraphrasing someone else that for all I know was a hollywood actor.

The funny thing is though it's going to all end up a little "chicken or the egg" if it turns out to be one in the same.

 

not too good
see here....."It is a small sheet of stiff tiles and "joints" of elastomer,"

/snicker

 

yes i agree with you guys. but i don't really know that the flaps and the wings are separate or not? are they built in?

 

A rather daft point, but in character with usual responding postss the real concern will be if they make shrinking pants from the material.

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(Admittedly it would require further micronisation to the level of cloth)

 

I think the Pentagon should call Michael Bay and get some advice on how to build an autobot

listen first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQHjSTNc690&NR=1

than you have:

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Where can you buy one??