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Here’s What The Military’s Top Roboticist Is Afraid Of (It’s Not Killer Robots)
We’re on the verge of an explosion in robotic capability and diversity, and it would be folly to stop exploring now, says the man who ran DARPA’s Grand Robotics Challenge.
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The Military Wants Swarm Bots It Can Retrieve in Midair
They'll bite through your aileron wires. They'll insert toasting forks in your tyres. That is the tale of the Gremlins.
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How Uber Could Help Change Spycraft
The U.S. intelligence community wants feedback from the innovative car-sharing company and other commercial startups on its 5-year data-analysis roadmap.
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Hackers to Military: Replace Us With Robots? Ha!
Next year’s Cyber Grand Challenge event will pit humans against machines in a grand hacking war. DEF CON’s war gamers like their chances.
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Pentagon Sends an Engineer and a Navy SEAL to Woo Silicon Valley
Not five months after its announcement, the military’s California technology-hunting office is up and running.
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The Military Will Test a New Terrifyingly Loud Noise Gun
The Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program is developing lasers that create a screaming ball of plasma on their target.
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Will DARPA’s Disaster Robots Ever Go to War? Never Say Never
In the latest Grand Challenge, semi-autonomous machines pushed the state of the art for humanoid robots.
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The US Military Wants Its Troops To Be Able To See Through Walls
DARPA is looking for ways to extract more information from light than cameras typically do, which could help troops spot hidden enemies.
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The Army Is Testing Handheld Ray Guns
Fittingly, these rifle-sized weapons would gun for other electronics.
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The Army Wants Robot Four-Wheelers and Decepticons
The service is outlining a multi-decade plan for autonomic and robotic systems.
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Can the Military Make a Prediction Machine?
The planet is awash in open, free data. Can military-funded research turn it into a crystal ball?
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How Fish Could Give Us the Body Armor of the Future
A new study out of MIT may have found a protective, flexible solution for today’s soldiers in an unlikely place: the sea.
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Special Report: To Protect Ourselves From Bioweapons, We May Have to Reinvent Science Itself
Getting far better at predicting what research will produce may be the only way to save the world.
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The World of 2020 According to DARPA
The research agency is making underwater robots that can sleep for years and other robots that can fix satellites in space.
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The Military’s Robotic Ghost Ship Passes Critical Test
An autonomous sub-hunting ship passed an important technological milestone and the oceans may never be the same.
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How Military Scientists Want To Fix Your Online Privacy Problem
DARPA is tackling online privacy. But can you trust them?
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DARPA's New Search Engine Puts Google in the Dust
After only one year in use, DARPA's Memex search engine has already played a key role in nearly 20 different investigations.
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Military Looking To Give Troops Super Sensing Abilities
A new DARPA program wants to give soldiers digital ESP.
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Here’s What You’ll Find on the Fighter Jet of 2030
Military leaders reveal their hopes and fears for the 6th Generation fighter they will desperately need.
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