215 Results From "DARPA"

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.
Future Society

DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots

(DARPA is now seeking public input on its plans for massive "bio-mechanical space structures" that can be grown in orbit.
Off-World

DARPA Requests Plans for “Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures”

While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, DARPA made a highly unusual detection.
Future Society

DARPA Tried Using the Earth’s Atmosphere as a Giant Sensor and Detected Something Interesting

Space tech company Honeybee Robotics has come up with a concept for a 330-foot pole that could act like a streetlight for a Moon base.
Moon

DARPA Funding Plan to Build Huge Streetlight on the Moon

The DOD is looking for tech that will protect against "cognitive attacks" that could disable soldiers wearing virtual reality devices.
Virtual Reality

DARPA Seeks to Protect Virtual Reality Against “Cognitive Attacks”

Northrop Grumman has released a photo of a sleek underground drone called Manta Ray that closely resembles its oceanic namesake.
Drones

Northrop Grumman Shows Off Terrifying Military Drone Submarine

Scientists say they've developed a ludicrously keen-eyed laser device that can read the text in a book from a whopping 0.85 miles away.
Devices

Alarming Spy Device Can Read Text in an Open Book From Nearly a Mile Away

Researchers have not only built an AI child, but now, are training AI systems using headcam footage from a human baby, too.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Train AI Using Headcam Footage From Human Toddler

Space Station Astronaut Starts Mixing Cement for Future Moon Base
Moon

Space Station Astronaut Starts Mixing Cement for Future Moon Base

First theorized in 1963 by a Polish SciFi author, smart dust is now a real life technology with major implications.
Robotics

Scientists Working on “Smart Dust” That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air

According to a former analyst, the Pentagon's robots, trained to identity human targets, were easily fooled by soldiers hiding in cardboard boxes.
Robotics

Marines Evaded a Military Robot by Hiding Inside a Cardboard Box “Like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon”

NASA has chosen Lockheed Martin to test a nuclear-powered rocket in space by 2027, in hopes of using the system to power Mars missions.
Nuclear Fusion

NASA Signs Deal for Nuclear-Powered Rocket That Will Eventually Power Mars Missions

After removing mentions the "military and warfare" from its usage policies page, OpenAI has spoken out about working with the military.
OpenAI

OpenAI Axes Ban on Military Contracts, Reveals Deal With Pentagon

Around 30 activists gathered near the entrance to OpenAI's San Francisco office earlier this week, calling for an AI boycott.
OpenAI

Protesters Swarm OpenAI

Viral photos on both sides of the Isreal-Hamas conflict have been revealed to be AI fakes — and the problem is only going to get worse
Artificial Intelligence

Viral Images of Dead Infants in Israel-Gaza War Are AI Fakes, Experts Say

Researchers at Northwestern University have built a massive pair of virtual reality goggles for mice to study how their brains work.
Virtual Reality

Scientists Create Comically Gigantic VR Goggles for Mice

A new study from Stanford University shows that people with a hoarding problem can alleviate their issue by using virtual reality.
Virtual Reality

VR Lets Hoarders Practice Throwing Away Their Cherished Garbage

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently developed and tested a new Black Hawk helicopter that can fly with no one inside it.
DARPA

Welp, DARPA Just Flew a Black Hawk Helicopter with No Pilot

Researchers are working on a way to transform plastic waste into edible biomass for deep-space missions, all with the help of lab-engineered bacteria.
Off-World

Cursed Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Edible Food

DARPA and the Air Force successfully flight tested a hypersonic missile that "breathes" the air around it to propel itself faster.
DARPA

DARPA Successfully Launched an “Air-Breathing” Hypersonic Missile