As if you had any reason to believe that killbots weren't multiplying by the minute, here's yet another case to strike fear in your heart. Project A.R.E.S. was designed with a few key goals in mind: to replace human soldiers and to demonstrate that a weapons system could be controlled wirelessly / remotely. The designers also set out to "provide a form of feedback so that the user could navigate the robot without actually being present," and the current version has been equipped with a semi-automatic turret and a wireless camera to give the controller a good view of the surroundings. We don't get the idea that this bugger has enlisted just yet (boot camp is a chore, you know), but be sure and check out the video of it prancing about after the jump.
"In the future, wars won't be fought by soldiers on the battlefield; they'll be fought by ROBOTS, in SPACE, or possibly on very tall mountains. And your job will be to build and maintain those robots!"
Here is one link to our poster we made, yea i guess all the attached files are there, just links to them are broken, but you can probably figure it out, just folders got messed up, when they archived the site.
Wifi Module is with IEEE 802.11i-PSK (AES-CCMP) or WPA-PSK (TKIP) security. It also optionally supports 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standards (Rijndael) encryption. Our robot is not HACK PROOF but it's security is decent.
animedbz1000, wow we had many of the same goals, do you have any further pictures with your project? How were your results?
LOL @ Wall-E and SkyNet comments, never even thought of that while making this project haha.
That's the lamest piece of junk I've seen in a while. Seriously. It looked like a cheap RC car with some shit added onto it. Its driving skills were absolutely useless. Its servo control of the camera and WTF that "gun" were supposed to be was really jerky but still slow. The camera was super-narrow lowrez.
cool project bro! whats the user interface look like? a nice GUI could help control it much easier, im assuming right now its probably command interface through just keyboard?
That much power coming from someone accross the world on a computer....this completely dehumanizes the element of war. I read that A.E. put in a order of 300 killbots recently and are trying them out.
Nonetheless I see it is a college project. Good use of techinical skills & concept / application of wifi - I believe most are using RF signal at the moment.
seriously whats so great about this robot. its not a robot at all. you can make one from an rc car, just add one more joystick and button, for panning and killing....
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posted Jun 9th 2008 9:40AM
YIKES! I hope they are kidding about controlling this thing with WiFi. Lets hope it uses a seriously hardened communications link...
DROP YOUR WEAPON !!!!
YOU HAVE 15 SECONDS TO COMPLY !
@Flashpoint
eh, before or after the WiFi gets hacked?
that all depends on if you can hack it in 15 seconds..
I wonder what is the user keybord layout
WSAD?
hahah
What is the sensitivity?
Should have called it project A.R.S.E., would have been funnier....
Has anyone noticed that America resembles one of those evil empires from the average first person shooter lately?
Not really.
But if it did, it would make me happy to know that my country is everything that the average insipid story-writing hack hates.
I can just imagine the conversation that brought about this...thing
Military Personal #1 "Hey lets make a machine that can kill people"
Military Personal #2 "That's a great idea! Lets also control it via WiFi"
Military Personal #1 "Yeah! what could possibly go wrong?"
What, no price or release date? Nuts!
WOW! I want to see it get a virus.
I can not only play Doom, it can spell it. For all!
WIFI controlled eh? Ever heard of Backtrack?
Not cool when your killbot gets hacked in 5 minutes.
I hope the enemy doesn't run up a flight of stairs.
Christ I hope that thing doesn't use WEP...
Hell no, Military don't need no stinkin WEP, its on an open connection....
"Terminator: Skynet has become self aware. In one hour it will initiate a massive nuclear attack on its enemy."
LOL
Ah yes, now they almost look like the prototype machines in the Skynet building.
lets hope it the key size is at least 512bits, and lots of cryptanalysis to see if there are any vulnerabilities.
--
"Hey Timmy, what'cha' got there?"
"It's my KILLBOT3000, now mom and dad will listen"
Can you also send the term command via wifi?
"In the future, wars won't be fought by soldiers on the battlefield; they'll be fought by ROBOTS, in SPACE, or possibly on very tall mountains. And your job will be to build and maintain those robots!"
FYI:
This is a senior design project at University of California - Riverside.
"Please hold still while my robot slowly positions itself to kill you."
This was my senior design project at Purdue Univesity, though they some of the links are broken.
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~dsml/ece477/Webs/F06-Grp03/index
Here is one link to our poster we made, yea i guess all the attached files are there, just links to them are broken, but you can probably figure it out, just folders got messed up, when they archived the site.
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~dsml/ece477/Webs/F06-Grp03/documents/Poster.ppt
aw, that Wall-E is da cutest!
Wifi Module is with IEEE 802.11i-PSK (AES-CCMP) or WPA-PSK (TKIP) security. It also optionally supports 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standards (Rijndael) encryption. Our robot is not HACK PROOF but it's security is decent.
animedbz1000, wow we had many of the same goals, do you have any further pictures with your project? How were your results?
LOL @ Wall-E and SkyNet comments, never even thought of that while making this project haha.
Wow, very nice project Vamsee Kandimalla. If this was just your senior design project I'm looking forward to what you'll be making later on!
That's the lamest piece of junk I've seen in a while. Seriously. It looked like a cheap RC car with some shit added onto it. Its driving skills were absolutely useless. Its servo control of the camera and WTF that "gun" were supposed to be was really jerky but still slow. The camera was super-narrow lowrez.
This is a joke, of course?
cool project bro! whats the user interface look like? a nice GUI could help control it much easier, im assuming right now its probably command interface through just keyboard?
That much power coming from someone accross the world on a computer....this completely dehumanizes the element of war. I read that A.E. put in a order of 300 killbots recently and are trying them out.
Nonetheless I see it is a college project. Good use of techinical skills & concept / application of wifi - I believe most are using RF signal at the moment.
seriously whats so great about this robot. its not a robot at all. you can make one from an rc car, just add one more joystick and button, for panning and killing....