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Video: Pentagon’s Robo-Hummingbird Flies Like the Real Thing
Thu, Jul 2 | from Wired
Military-backed researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. So far, the mock bird, built for Pentagon mad science division Darpa, has only stayed aloft for twenty seconds at a time. But that short flight w...
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Rangel Steers Darpa Millions to Natural History Museum
“We don’t actually collaborate formally with the Department of Defense, but we do think that our work is relevant to them,” says Amato. He runs regular meetings with public health professionals and evolutionary biologists, but the group only puts in a yearly phone call to a Darpa program...
Wed, Jun 10 | from Wired
Universal ‘Rubik’s Cube’ Could Become Pentagon Shapeshifter
One day, that could lead to “morphing aircraft and ground vehicles, uniforms that can alter themselves to be comfortable in any climate, and ’soft’ robots that flow like mercury through small openings to enter caves and bunker complexes.” A soldier could even reach into a can of unformed...
Fri, Jun 5 | from Wired
Army Terminators Walk Like Men
In 2005, one of the competitors in Darpa's Grand Challenge for robot vehicles was an unmanned motor bike called Ghost Rider. This was based on a 90-cc dirt bike outfitted with sensors, gyros for steering and video cameras for eyes. ...
Thu, May 21 | from Wired News
Darpa’s Simple Plan to Track Targets Everywhere
The NetTrack overview on the Darpa website gives few details, but the strategic plan gives a better idea of how it might work. Using software tools, the system could stitch together information from a variety of sensors (synthetic aperture radar, optical, video, acoustic sensors, movi...
Thu, May 21 | from Wired
Air Force Signs on to Darpa's All-Seeing Blimp
It's significant for another reason: Tony Tether, who recently stepped down as chief of Darpa after almost eight years on the job, was a big fan of ISIS. This ensures that development of the concept will continue in some form after Tether's departure.
Thu, Mar 12 | from Wired News
Battlechips: Darpa's Next-Gen Micro Machines
Darpa is a little vague about what'll become of this technology. "Transition of this technology is anticipated through industry, who will incorporate elements of the technology in current and future weapon system design," the agency notes. Illo: Micro Cryogenic Cooler, Darpa]
Fri, Mar 6 | from Wired News
Darpa Wants a Lab for Sim Afghanistans
The U.S. military is bankrolling a dozen or more programs, to create Sim Afghansitans and Sim Iraqs where they can test their war plans. The problem is, each model-maker uses his own set of country-building software, his own set of data about the country's social, cultural, and political st...
Thu, Mar 5 | from Wired News
Five for Fighting 2/18/09
Darpa wants "biofouling"-free ships... New Afghan supply route: via Iran * Darpa wants "biofouling"-free ships... * ...and software that can "explain" its own "anomalous behavior" * Hamas' "medicine grenades" * Video: Tank vs. Ranger Rover (High five: RC)
Wed, Feb 18 | from Wired News
Software Swarm to Spot Rockets Before They're Fired
There are plenty of systems out there to identify the direction of a shooter after he has opened fire. But it might be too late by then. That's why Darpa is developing a system to spot a rocket propelled grenade before it's fired. It's a major challenge, but the solution may lie with a swarm of sof...
Wed, Feb 4 | from Wired News
Terror-Stopping Building-Sealer Too Much for Darpa
Thin steel wires compacted under tension. When deployed the wires expand to assume predetermined geometric shapes formed from a tangle of the wire itself. Expansion ratios of 1:6000 are achievable. The devices could be used to prevent access by vehicles or by personnel to designated area...
Thu, Dec 4 | from Wired News
Pentagon Clears Flying Car Project for Take-Off
Darpa hopes its "Personal Air Vehicle Technology" project, announced yesterday, will ultimately lead to a working prototype of a military-suitable flying car -- a two-to-four passenger vehicle that can "drive on roads" one minute, and take off like a helicopter the next. The hybrid ma...
Thu, Nov 13 | from Wired News
Darpa Wants Sim to 'Resurrect' Battlefield Trauma
RESURRECT could also do some forecasting, too. Darpa would like the program to include "descriptive and predictive algorithms that can be implemented in an existing simulation software package." Far-off commanders can already watch battles unfold, thanks to spy drones, streaming vi...
Mon, Nov 10 | from Wired News
'Artificial Intuition,' Earthquake Detectors vie for Pentagon Prize
Everyone from Darpa to the National Security Initiative seems to be dangling pots of cash in front of inventors, entrepreneurs and scientists to come up with innovative new ideas for defense and national security. Here's another contest to watch.
Fri, Oct 31 | from Wired News
Darpa Wants Bigger, Smarter BigDog 'Bot To Help in Combat [BigDog]
It'll have to cope with stairs, water hazards, desert levels of heat and arctic levels of snow and ice, navigate through GPS waypoints, and it'll have to respond to speech and gesture commands—at which point you imagine a soldier commanding it to "sit!" and giggle slightly. But only sligh...
Wed, Oct 29 | from Gizmodo
DARPA Grand Challenge vs. European Land Robot | Danger Room from ...
Basically, the vehicle even was equipped very similarly, but in contrast to the Darpa Grand Challenge where the vehicles drive along a track that connects waypoints, defined by GPS navigation, the European Land Robot Trial does not ...
Thu, Sep 6 | from Wired News
The Bleeding Edge 174: DARPA Grand Challenge Qualifier: Carnegie Mellon and GM’s BOSS Vehicle
We visited one of the fifty or so groups participating in the DARPA Urban Challenge during one of their qualifying rounds. In case you are unaware, the DARPA Urban Challenge is a charge given publicly to groups who are capable of designing and proving the technology for autonomously drive...
Thu, Jul 12 | from Gear Live
Bomb Detection CEO Named New Darpa Boss
Mechanical engineer and defense entrepreneur Regina Dugan has been named the new director of Darpa, the Pentagon’s premiere research arm. Dugan will now be in charge of more than $3.2 billion’s worth of high-risk science and technology projects — everything from thinking computers to s...
Thu, Jul 2 | from Wired
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Darpa’s Smart, Flat Camera is Packed With Beady Eyes
Eventually, the project could lead to a kind of wide-angle helmet cam. Linked to the right image-processing software, it could be a life-saver, keeping a constant lookout in all directions for possible threats. Darpa is already pursing a similiar approach to try to spot RPGs before they a...
Wed, Jul 1 | from Wired
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