DARPA
- News
DARPA Re-Invents The Wheel In Two Seconds
DARPA Re-Invent the Wheel With A Tyre That Can Turn Into A Track DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I say this initially because I’m pretty certain that many of you who played Metal Gear Solid will certainly know the name, but perhaps not what it stood…
Read More » - News
Cyber Grand Challenge Won By “Mayhem” Program
For some time now the US Darpa research agency has been staging a competition to develop software that is capable of automatically defending against cyber-attacks, in the hopes that it could generate interest in the development of autonomous security systems. Now, a provisional winner of the competition has been announced at…
Read More » - News
DARPA to Create an Undersea GPS System
We all get lost, it just happens. Over the years people have changed how they avoided this fact of life, some drew maps on paper while others have more recently started relying on satellites and global positioning systems (GPS) to tell them their exact location and even directions to where…
Read More » - News
DARPA To Begin Testing Its Sub-Hunting Drone Ship
Technology is getting smarter, it is now getting to the point where technology can start doing things that would often require a human such as deliver pizzas. DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) is keen on seeing this automated technology makes its way into the battlefield. Recently DARPA revealed its Anti-submarine…
Read More » 
- News
DARPA Might Have a Way to Improve Satellite Longevity
It’s definitely not cheap to develop a satellite and launch it into space, so as you can probably imagine, its creators would prefer it if that satellite would remain fully operational for as long as possible. Unfortunately, geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites that follow our planet’s rotation are often faced with…
Read More » - News
DARPA’s Preparing Its Autonomous Robot Ship
It won’t be too long now before DARPA will officially unveil its brand new autonomous robot ship, at least according to the agency’s director, Arati Prabhakar. During a recent media event, she revealed that DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel will be christened in April. This is actually the very same…
Read More » - News
DARPA Developing On-Chip Liquid Cooling
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is helping to develop on-chip liquid cooling for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) systems that could easily be adapted for use with CPUs and GPUs. On-chip cooling of this manner would allow manufacturers to shrink the size of processors without having to consider the…
Read More » - News
New Prosthetic Restores Sense Of Feeling
Medical technology appears in the news every few weeks, for all kinds of reasons, from being able to control them with a cap placed over your head to giving a man who was unable to walk the ability to do so again. The reasons for this constant stream of news is…
Read More » -
- News
IBM Wants to Put a ‘Rodent Brain’ in Your Phone
Dharmendra Modha has an array of 48 circuit boards, lined 6 by 8 on a rack, each with its own processor. Modha describes this set-up as a small rodent. Or, more accurately, a digital recreation of a small rodent brain, and one that he wants to put in your smartphone.…
Read More » - News
19-Year-Old’s Supercomputer Chip Startup Gets DARPA Funding
Ambitious 19-year-old Thomas Sohmers, who launched his own supercomputer chip startup back in March, has won a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the US) contract and additional funding for his company, worth $100,000. The startup, Rex Computing, is currently putting finishing touches to the architecture of its final verified…
Read More » - News
Meet the Robot That Won $2 Million in the Darpa Robotics Challenge
In Pomona, California on Friday and Saturday, some of the greatest robotic engineers gathered together to compete for a £2 million prize in a competition run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to find the most advanced robot in the world. The two-day event pitted 24 teams…
Read More » - News
New Disposable Tech Can Draw Blood Without Needles
A new startup, sponsored by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a new piece of medical tech that can draw blood, painlessly, without breaking the skin. The blood-drawing device – developed by Tasso Inc, an affiliate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison – could replace needles entirely…
Read More » -
- News
Android Tablet Delivers Air-Strike in Just Four Minutes
Up until now, American Joint Terminal Attack Controllers have been faced with calling in airstrikes using radios and paper maps. During that time, they required to coordinate and monitor positions of inbound aircrews to avoid friendly fire, while also being in the middle of a firefight. Now, thanks to DARPA…
Read More » - News
DARPA’s Idea to Replace Batteries with Propane Seems Mad and Genius at the Same Time
Soldiers are becoming more and more reliant on technology and the old-fashioned lithium-ion batteries won’t really do the trick. The US military currently uses the Ultralife UBI-2590 battery pictured below, which weighs in at 1.4kg a piece. However, their capacity is extremely limited and solders need a lot of them…
Read More » - News
DARPA Developing Superior GPS Replacement
Anyone who’s tried to negotiate their way cross-country with only a satnav for guidance knows that GPS signal can be temperamental. It seems that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) must have also struggled with a ten-hour road trip from Bournemouth to Loch Lomond, as it is developing a…
Read More »
