DARPA wants robots that are able to eventually do many things humans can A headless humanoid robot clambers noisily through an obstacle course with the grim, unfeeling purpose of a terminator. Luckily, it’s just the [...]

Google co-founder Sergey Brin believes that “self-driving cars will be far safer than human-driven cars” but who trusts them enough to drive in them or even alongside them? Drivers will not need a driving licence [...]

  DARPA links human brainwaves, improved sensors, cognitive algorithms to improve target detection  For warfighters operating in the field, the ability to detect threats from standoff distances can be life-saving. When advanced radar and drone [...]

Diesel-electric submarines are a growing worry for the maritime nations of the world. Submarine combat may seem like an obsolete relic from World War II films and Cold War thrillers, but the past 20 years [...]

“At this price point, the Sandia Hand has the potential to be a disruptive technology,” Sandia National Laboratories has developed a cost-effective robotic hand that can be used in disarming improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. [...]

The initiative has also received the support and blessing of the Dalai Lama. Russian media magnate Dmitry Itskov is heading “Avatar,” a tremendously ambitious and far-reaching multidisciplinary research project that aims to achieve immortality in [...]

Harvard’s Wyss Institute receives $2.6M from DARPA to develop suit The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University today announced that it has received a $2.6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research [...]

Give computers a huge boost in speed and energy efficiency Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections that [...]

As in so many MacGyver-style systems, it all comes down to paragliding robots. A new project to make dealing with humanitarian crises easier includes robot gliders that can deliver aid to crisis zones–and modules that [...]

Blazing hot booming sky-spear ‘is the new Stealth’ Pentagon wild-card warboffin agency DARPA has plunged back into the hypersonics fray with a vengeance, announcing plans to build a “recoverable” rocket plane capable of Mach 20 [...]

The goal of achieving a 2,000 percent increase in the efficiency of power transmission We were slightly disappointed but not at all surprised to learn that DARPA‘s Robot Challenge platform will likely spend most of [...]

Small satellites capable of providing on-demand battlefield images Enemy fighters use commercial satellite images to plot attacks on U.S. troops, but most U.S. soldiers can’t get the same images because of technical or classification restrictions. [...]