217 Results From "DARPA"

DARPA is training artificial intelligence algorithms to fly fighter planes then pitting them against each other in virutal combat.
Artificial Intelligence

DARPA Is Testing F-16s Flown by AI in Virtual Combat

DARPA recently deployed a tiny camera satellite that the agency hopes can take sharp images of exoplanets that are usually washed out of pictures.
DARPA

DARPA Deploys Tiny Satellite That Could Take Best Pictures of Space Ever

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a nuclear-powered rocket to move cargo around Earth's orbit.
Moon

DARPA’s Working on a Nuclear-Powered Rocket for Easy Moon Access

DARPA is preparing to launch the first experimental satellite of its Blackjack network, which would function like a military version of SpaceX's Starlink.
DARPA

DARPA Is About to Launch a Military Version of SpaceX’s Starlink

Kelley Aerospace has developed a combat drone capable of reaching supersonic speeds — and they already have 100 pre-orders for it.
Drones

Three Words: Supersonic. Combat. Drones.

Artificial intelligence researchers are studying the brain waves and eye movements of gamers to train an AI that can control fleets of military robots.
Robotics

DARPA Is Using Gamers’ Brain Waves to Train Robot Swarms

Boeing has quit DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane (XSP) project, prompting the military agency to announce it was killing the project altogether.
Boeing

Boeing Quits — and Kills — DARPA Experimental Spaceplane Program

An AI-controlled virtual fighter jet just beat a human pilot in a dogfight, winning five rounds to zero as part of a DARPA contest.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Fighter Jet Obliterates Human Air Force Pilot in Simulated Dogfight

In a world's first, a jet pilot flying inside a real aircraft just fought an artificial intelligence-powered virtual fighter jet in real time.
Virtual Reality

A Pilot Flying a Real Jet Just Fought an Augmented Reality Enemy

DARPA is funding research into bacteria for bomb detection that could sense explosives below the ground and then glow on its surface.
DARPA

DARPA Is Engineering Glowing Bacteria for Bomb Detection

DARPA developed a new test for COVID-19 that can spot an infection within 24 hours, even earlier than people start spreading the coronavirus to others.
Developments

New Military Test Detects COVID-19 Before It’s Infectious

DARPA-funded scientist Christoffer Heckman argues that some sort of new guidelines are needed to keep engineers from building autonomous weapons.
DARPA

DARPA Scientist: Engineers Must Stop Making Autonomous Weapons

A team of researchers have built a tiny microbot that weighs less than a gram and can run entirely on methanol, a type of alcohol.
Robotics

Relatable: This Tiny Robot Is Powered by Alcohol

Computer scientist and investor Sailesh Ramakrishnan says that the space industry is about to see a "gold rush" that will transform off-world exploration
NASA

Former NASA Scientist Predicts “Gold Rush” in Space

DARPA assembled a team called Squad X that uses robots to scout out a battlefield before human soldiers engage in combat.
Robotics

DARPA’s “Squad X” Teams Up Soldiers With Scout Robots

In an inexplicable tweet, DARPA called all city dwellers to please find them "commercially managed underground urban tunnels and facilities."
DARPA

DARPA Needs a Creepy Underground Lair ASAP

With over 500 Starlink broadband-beaming satellites already in orbit, SpaceX is looking to move swiftly ahead with rolling out its internet service.
SpaceX

SpaceX Is Now Taking Requests for Starlink Beta Testers

Scientists working with DARPA developed a living concrete, teeming with bacteria, that resembles Jell-O. It can grow and regenerate itself when it breaks.
Science & Energy

Scientists Create “Living Concrete” That Can Heal Itself

In a year filled with technological breakthroughs of all stripes, military technology really pushed the limits of what we thought was possible this year.
Military

The Coolest (and Scariest) Military Tech of 2019

DARPA has officially funded a program to come up with a brain-machine interface headset that could allow soldiers to control drones with their minds.
DARPA

DARPA Wants Soldiers to Control Drones With Their Thoughts