Rickey White pilots an interceptor drone during the ThunderDrone Tech Expo at SOFWERX in Tampa, Fla., Sept. 5, 2017. The expo provided an opportunity for industry, national laboratories and academia to discuss and promote new and innovative drone technology with the special operations community. (Barry Loo/Air Force)
David Axe, Daily Beast: The Pentagon’s Wild Plan for Mind-Controlled Drones
The U.S. military is testing a brain implant that might one day let users control drones with their minds—and for the drones to send signals back.
The U.S. military has tested, multiple times, a brain implant that allows a human operator to simultaneously control, with their thoughts, up to three flying drones.
Well, in theory. The tests, overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), were computer simulations. And while they might eventually lead to actual mind control for flying robots, the technology is still in its infancy.
The mind-controlled drone trials took place in Pittsburgh between June 2016 and January 2017, according to DARPA. “Using a bidirectional neural interface, a volunteer named Nathan Copeland was able to simultaneously steer a simulated lead aircraft and maintain formation of two, simulated unmanned support aircraft in a flight simulator,” Tim Kilbride, a DARPA spokesperson, told The Daily Beast.
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WNU Editor: Welcome to the future of war .... The next war might include mind-controlled drones (Military Times), and it is more real than what people realize .... It’s Now Possible To Telepathically Communicate with a Drone Swarm (Defense One).
