Posts Tagged ‘DARPA’
News Stories
Video of the Day: DARPA’s Horse Robot, The LS3, Just Got Better (video)
Anamatronic creepy.
News Stories
Video of the Day: Watch DARPA’s Robotic Dog Toss Cinder Blocks (video)
It’s amazing what kind of mechanics animals employ to perform a seemingly simple task. BigDog handles heavy objects. The goal is to use the strength of the legs and torso to help power motions of the arm. This sort of dyn...
Robots
DARPA’s LittleDog Robot Will Haunt Your Dreams (video)
Don’t watch this video before you go to bed — LittleDog is a DARPA project centered on building a robot that can traverse rough terrain, bringing supplies to soldiers and doing other dangerous things. DARPA’s ...
Military
Hypersonic Air Force Glider Goes Mach 20, Disappears, Rouses Crazy Conspiracy Theorists
Here’s a cool (and kinda scary) government tech story: DARPA’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) is a super fast, super deadly weapon built by Lockheed Martin that is capable of reaching speeds of Mach ...
Green Energy
Today Zombie Pigs, Tomorrow Project NIMBUS
Some days I don’t know just how creeped out to feel about the Pentagon. There are days when I’m convinced the whole thing is run by Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers series. Not too long ago I got you some insider da...
Household
Neato Robotics’ XV11 Surpasses Roomba Easily
All right, everybody, got a new and interesting gadget for you today, so brace yourselves–the logical successor to the Roomba has reared its suctiony head, and it’s called the XV11 from Neato Robotics. Okay, with a ...
Computers
The Phraselator: A Universal Translator Can’t Be Far
So I was digging around when I found DARPArama, kind of a clearinghouse of prototypes and ideas and whatnot out of DARPA, or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. And I started reading about the Phraselator…and frank...
Bionic
The Future of War: Cyborg Beetles and Combat Wasps
Well, that’s it for me, folks–my science fiction lobe has officially collapsed on me, because I was just reading about a new military project that’ll probably change the way war is fought forever. I read about...
