Paul Struhsaker
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Dystopic The Machine Age Part 3 – The Human Factor
December 23, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter The Machine Age Part 3 – The Human Factor ... What is Going to Happen to Us? Cyberdyne Japan, HAL (Hybrid Assisted Limb) ‘Wearable Cyborg” Lift Assist (Cyberdyne) Happy Holidays and Best Wishes in the Coming New Year! This is the third in a three-part series of Dystopic newsletters about “The Machine Age”, exploring the technology and advancements behind a revolution in humanoid robotics. The first Dystopic in the series, Machine Age Part 1 – Introduction...
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December 12, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter The Machine Age Part 2 – What Makes The New Machine? A look at the components and costs of Humanoid Robots Humanoid Robot (Bonsystems) What Makes the New Machine? A new era of humanoid robotics, enabled by Physical AI, is dawning. Physical AI is the driving force behind solutions spanning self-driving taxis, military drone swarms, missile defense, augmented reality, and industrial and humanoid robotics. If you think Large Language Model (LLM) AI is going...
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November 24, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter The Machine Age Part 1 – Introduction to Physical AI Agility Robotics warehouse logistics testing at Amazon You can watch Agility Robotics at work on an Amazon Warehouse floor in the following video clip HERE The Robots Are Coming The media is saturated with coverage of the impact on the workplace of Large Language Model (LLM) AI from industry titans like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to name a few. The pace of development and capabilities in...
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Noveber 11, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter The Veterans Day Addition US Navy Aviator John Struhsaker in his Biplane trainer, Pensacola NAS, 1941 Thank You and God Bless all who have served! A special thank you to all Active Duty members of the Military and their families who continue to serve selflessly despite the government shutdown – you deserve better! In memory of all veterans and especially those lost in combat: “All Gave Some, but Some Gave All!” Service to the Country – a Family Business It...
READ POSTDystopic - The State of the Military and Commercial Space Industry: Silicon Valley Space Week
November 5, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter The State of the Military and Commercial Space Industry: Silicon Valley Space Week SVSW – Silicon Valley Space Week – Tech Brief: Golden Dome Technology Challenges (P. Struhsaker) Last Week was one of my favorite weeks of the year: Silicon Valley Space Week- SVSW. The space industry confab that covers both space innovation and military space applications in two combined symposiums: Satellite Innovation MilSat Symposium I was fortunate to be invited to...
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10/23/2025 Dystopic Newsletter Tomahawk Diplomacy The Typhon medium-range Tomahawk cruise missile ground-based system deployed by US Army and Marine Corps (US ARMY) It has been a brutal summer campaign for Russia in 2025. Per the Economist, for a gain of less than 0.4% of Ukraine, Russia has suffered at least 100,000 killed in action and likely 2.5 to 3 times that number injured. Despite their lack of manpower, Ukraine’s defense is holding. AI drone swarming technology, the latest innovation...
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October 12, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter Dystopic Golden Dome Space-Based Interceptors - the most critical system component Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Space-Based Interceptor (Raytheon) Golden Dome: What We Have Learned So Far in Parts 1 and 2 of The Series Before we begin our final installment of our Dystopic Newsletter series on the Golden Dome space-based missile defense, let’s review what we have covered so far in our first two Installments. First of all, why did President Trump instruct the...
READ POSTDystopic - Red Alert - The New US Space-Based Early Warning System - PWSA
September 28, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter Red Alert - The New US Space-Based Early Warning System - PWSA Artist concept of PWSA Tracking Layer Satellites using optical communications links (Lockheed Martin) The New US Space-Based Early Warning System: PWSA -Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture As we previously discussed in the first in a series of newsletters on the technology behind the proposed Golden Dome system, the proliferation of new extended-range cruise missiles and hypersonic...
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September 7, 2025 Dystopic Newsletter Space-Based Missile Defense: An Introduction to the Golden Dome Project Artist Concept of Golden Dome Space-Based Missile Defense (L3 Harris) Until the last decade, the US stood as the sole superpower. At that time, China had fewer nuclear weapons than either the UK or France. North Korea had a limited nuclear arsenal and lacked an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the US. The New START Treaty limited the U.S. and Russia to...
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