The U.S. military is researching ways for its troops can use their minds to remotely control androids who will take human soldiers' place on the battlefield.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the Pentagon's hi-tech research arm, has earmarked $7million for research into the project, nicknamed Avatar.
The ultimate goal of the project sounds, bizarrely, much like the fantastical plot of the the film of the same name.
Science following fiction: In Avatar, pictured, human soldiers use mind control to inhabit genetically engineered proxies
In the James Cameron movie, set far in the future, human soldiers use mind control to inhabit the bodies of human alien hybrids as they carry out a war against the inhabitants of a distant world.
According to the Darpa's 2013 budget: 'The Avatar program will develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.'
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