Rocket Lab, the Kiwi operation working on breaking into the launch industry with small but frequent launches, has its first launch of the year today, due to take off in just a few minutes. Tune in here!
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Seraphim attracts the UK’s Ministry of Defence to its SpaceTech accelerator
In the US the links between private sector technology and the defense industry are long and well known. And in the realm of startups, DARPA, has long fostered new technologies such as those around drones. But despite the world-class defense sector in the UK, historically speaking, it has not reached out quite so overtly to […]
View More Seraphim attracts the UK’s Ministry of Defence to its SpaceTech acceleratorDARPA wants smart bandages for wounded warriors
Nowhere is prompt and effective medical treatment more important than on the battlefield, where injuries are severe and conditions dangerous. DARPA thinks that outcomes can be improved by the use of intelligent bandages and other systems that predict and automatically react to the patient’s needs.
View More DARPA wants smart bandages for wounded warriorsRocket Lab snags DARPA launch contract for first 2019 mission
Launch startup Rocket Lab is following the success of its first couple commercial launches by adding a prestigious (and deep-pocketed) new client: DARPA. The New Zealand-based company will send an experimental satellite called R3D2 into low Earth orbit sometime in late February if all goes well. DARPA is of course the Defense Department’s research wing, […]
View More Rocket Lab snags DARPA launch contract for first 2019 missionDARPA wants to build an AI to find the patterns hidden in global chaos
That most famous characterization of the complexity causality, a butterfly beating its wings and causing a hurricane on the other side of the world, is thought-provoking but ultimately not helpful. What we really need is to look at a hurricane and figure out which butterfly caused it — or perhaps stop it before it takes flight in the first place. DARPA thinks AI should be able to do just that.
View More DARPA wants to build an AI to find the patterns hidden in global chaosDARPA wants to teach and test ‘common sense’ for AI
It’s a funny thing, AI. It can identify objects in a fraction of a second, imitate the human voice, and recommend new music, but most machine “intelligence” lacks the most basic understanding of everyday objects and actions — in other words, common sense. DARPA is teaming up with the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence to see about changing that.
View More DARPA wants to teach and test ‘common sense’ for AIDARPA announces $2B investment in AI
At a symposium in Washington DC on Friday, DARPA announced plans to invest $2 billion in artificial intelligence research over the next five years. In a program called “AI Next,” the agency now has over 20 programs currently in the works and will focus on “enhancing the security and resiliency of machine learning and AI technologies, reducing […]
View More DARPA announces $2B investment in AIDARPA dedicates $75 million (to start) into reinventing chip tech
The Defense Department’s research arm, DARPA, is throwing a event around its “Electronics Resurgence Initiative,” an effort to leapfrog existing chip tech by funding powerful but unproven new ideas percolating in the industry. It plans to spend up to $1.5 billion on this over the years, of which about $75 million was earmarked today for a handful of new partners.
View More DARPA dedicates $75 million (to start) into reinventing chip techThe military is developing a shapeshifting wheel that is capable of transforming in just 2 seconds
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on a wheel-to-track mechanism that renders combat vehicles capable of conquering any terrain with ease. The wheel turns into a track while the vehicle is still moving.
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DARPA design shifts round wheels to triangular tracks in a moving vehicle
As part of its Ground X-Vehicle Technologies program, DARPA is showcasing some new defense vehicle tech that’s as futuristic as it is practical. One of the innovations, a reconfigurable wheel-track, comes out of Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center in partnership with DARPA. The wheel-track is just one of a handful of designs meant […]
View More DARPA design shifts round wheels to triangular tracks in a moving vehicleDARPA is funding new tech that can identify manipulated videos and ‘deepfakes’
The Menlo Park-based nonprofit research group SRI International has been awarded three contracts by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to wage war on the newest front in fake news. Specifically, DARPA’s Media Forensics program is developing tools capable of identifying when videos and photos have been meaningfully altered from their original state […]
View More DARPA is funding new tech that can identify manipulated videos and ‘deepfakes’DARPA’s Launch Challenge offers $10M prize for short-notice, rapid-turnaround rocketry
Getting to space is already tough, but getting there on short notice and then doing it again a couple weeks later? That’s a big ask. Nevertheless, DARPA is asking it as part of its Launch Challenge, announced today at the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado. Teams must take a payload to space with only days to prepare, then do it again soon after — if they want to win the $10M grand prize.
View More DARPA’s Launch Challenge offers $10M prize for short-notice, rapid-turnaround rocketry