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How would a futuristic style army use androids that mimic humans in any way?

You can use them as decoy for protecting high poppies you can't afford being killed. Instead of sending the original admiral Yamamoto on an inspection tour to Bouganville and having him killed, with t …
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What materials will still be needed to build life-like androids when nanomaterials are avail...

Carbon nanotube have excellent tensile properties, but no astounding compression characteristics. They would be extraordinary tendons but very poor bones, at least in the way bones work in our skeleto …
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Why might Androids be designed to rewrite their programming?

This means they are slow to understand the specific needs of an android (they would go through sprints and stand up meetings to get some code done) and they can be easily hijacked by for example competitors … To make it short, coding android is too serious to let humans do it. …
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Why might manufacturers not build androids to look like humans?

When an AI is so advanced that cannot be distinguished by a human, one needs a visual clue that the thing they are speaking to is an android and not a human. See what happens with R. …
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Building An Android

This however will be less efficient than a continuous flow, since your android would have to inspire and expire. A similar system can be used to maintain thermal balance in joints when needed. … To feed the fusion core you can simply have the android drink, once in a while, some heavy water integrated with lithium salts. …
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