A Brief History of Awesome Robots
In Kevin Drum's latest feature, he imagines a bleak future where robots begin taking all of our jobs. Though he predicts this will happen about three ...
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DARPA wants your ideas for a mobile ad hoc network, no internet please
Creating a mobile ad hoc network is tricky when rounding people up for a game or two, let alone when linking thousands of soldiers whose lives are at ...
Father and Son Win $1 Million in Tank Design Contest
The spare-time online activities between a son, a father, and his friend resulted in a $1 million prize from the Pentagon’s mad scientists ...
Scientist Behind Alaska’s Area 51 Pleads Guilty to Fraud
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, has always been a combination of big science, high sleaze, and pure conspiratorial ...
DARPA’s Robot Hand Is Almost As Capable As What’s On Your Arm
Gone are the days when we could look at cutting-edge robots and at least take some satisfaction in the fact that the human body was still superior.
Military hops on the 'Internet of Things'
The U.S. military has been thinking about the 'Internet of Things' -- networks of devices that talk to one another. But there are some major ...
MIT's Cheetah Robot Now Second Fastest Legged Robot
The MIT Cheetah now runs at a speed of 22 km/h (13.67 mph). The robot was developed by the MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab. Boston Dynamics built a much ...
DARPA's Amazing New Cyberarms
New video cleared by DARPA shows robotic arms agile enough to pick up keys and playing cards. When DARPA decided to call their next generation of ...
DARPA's low-cost robotic hand gets put through its paces (video)
This three-fingered manipulator has just about everything you could ever want in a robotic hand. It's relatively low-cost, it's powerful, it's ...
DARPA Seeks Clean-Slate Ideas For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Washington DC (SPX) May 01, 2013 Troops operating in forward locations without telecommunication infrastructure often rely on a mobile ad hoc network ...