The New ATLAS is Stronger, Faster, Scarier, and Battery-Powered
As if the original version of Boston Dynamics' ATLAS robot wasn't unsettling enough.
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This is What Plane-Mounted Laser Guns Could Look Like
Robotics and future-tech firm DARPA is going gaga over the pew-pew.
DARPA Director Totally Fine With Google Taking All the Fun Toys
DARPA wants it know that Google and other commercial enterprises are not their enemy.
These Gloves Let People Climb a Wall Like a Gecko
Sanford Uni and DARPA simulate the little lizard's sticky grip with silicone.
Call The Avengers: The Pentagon Wants to Make Helicarriers
Don't get too excited though, this one is for carrying drones rather than transporting superhero teams.
DARPA-Funded Researchers Have Tested a Drone That Can Learn
A drone that can think for itself? Nothing can go wrong with that, surely.
DARPA's Chipset Runs an Astonishing One Trillion Cycles Per Second
A new computing world record has been set with a circuit that packs supercomputer power into a single chip.
ATLAS is Getting Faster and Faster at Simple Human Tasks
We laughed at its incompetence when we first saw it, but it's picking up new skills with frightening ease.
DARPA's Experimental Tank May One Day Dodge Incoming Threats
Speed and agility means the new tanks won't need protection from incoming blasts.
The ATLAS Humanoid Robot Has Advanced to the Level of a Lazy Teenager
Just look how few shits it gives, just like a real teenager.
Soldiers Describe How DARPA Smartphones Save Lives in Battle
According to the soldiers who've tested the Pentagon's prototypes, the tech can't come soon enough.
Northrop Grumman Shows Off its Experimental Spaceplane Concept
It's being submitted to DARPA in order to create an affordable spaceplane that's able to travel hypersonic speeds in the upper atmosphere with ease.
Why the US Military is Pinning its Hopes on Google's Modular Phone
It's not better screens, or battery life, or anything for a major carrier. It's a puzzle-piece phone that will (hopefully) change the way the military communicates.
Inside the US Military's Secretive Smartphone Programme
DARPA is working on technology to put smartphones in the hands of soldiers that would replace brick-sized radios and paper maps. The device? A Samsung Galaxy Note.
DARPA'S Going to Bezos and Branson for Help Building its Spaceplanes
When it's finally built, the XS-1 spaceplane system would fly at hypersonic speeds in the atmosphere before releasing small satellites into orbit.
Big Dog Robot Has Been Deployed by the US Army for the First Time
It looks different from the last time we saw it, more like a big ox than a giant dog. Still jaw-droppingly cool, though.
