Project Chatter was a United States Navy program beginning in the fall of 1947 focusing on the identification and testing of drugs in interrogations and the recruitment of agents. Their search included laboratory experiments on both animal and human subjects. The program operated under the direction of Charles Savage of the Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, from 1947 to 1953.[1][2] The project was geared to identifying agents both synthetic, and natural that were effective during interrogation, as well as testing possible treatments for depression. The project was centered on, but not restricted to, the use of anabasine (an alkaloid), scopolamine and mescaline. It was the first U.S. government project in which lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25) was used on human subjects. The Navy ended the project in 1953 when its experiments were merged into Project MKULTRA.
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The general goal of our lab is to understand the locomotion aspect of animals. Recently we are focusing on quadrupeds, or four-legged animals and we try to understand how they efficiently run in the field and nature so that we can take that inspiration and then use it in our engineering world. So for example we can create prosthetic legs out of that technology and you could even make new transportation replacing cars so that you don't need the road in our world. The cheetah is the fastest four-legged animal in the world and we would like to make out robot run fast like a cheetah. When we started with our robot, we started to look at cheetahs' motion and applied its principles to our mechanical version of a cheetah. Currently our robot cheetah can run up to 10 mph and jump over a 33 cm high obstacle. So previously, most legged robots are powered by internal combustion engines and then hydraulic transmissions, and those are very noisy and very inefficient. But people believe that internal combustion engines and hydraulics are the only way to make a legged robot run and support itself. People believe that electric motors are not powerful enough, so this is the first time we show that an electrically powered robot can run and jump over a foot high obstacle. In order to build a dynamic robot like Cheetah we had to develop everything on the robot including motors, control system and control algorithms. Because previous robotic technology is focused on controlling static motion over the robot. I think this is a really exciting future where robots can be quiet and efficient and also powerful and then we might exceed the muscles' performance in the future.
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References
- ^ FOIA Documents from the Department of the Navy
- ^ Martin A. Lee; Bruce Shlain (1985). Acid dreams: the CIA, LSD, and the sixties rebellion. Grove Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-8021-3062-4.
Described as an "offensive" program, CHATTER was supposed to devise means of obtaining information from people independent of their volition but without physical duress.
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