DARPA wants to teach artificial intelligence "common sense"
Funny thing, artificial intelligence. He can identify objects within seconds or fractions of a second, to imitate the human voice and to recommend music, but most of machine "intelligence" lack the basic understanding of everyday ...
SHRIMP: tiny little robots-rescuers from DARPA
Miniature robotics is more interested in the big Agency world. For example, recently management of perspective research projects of the Ministry of defense (DARPA) has begun to develop miniature robots that will help to eliminate ...
DARPA is developing wheels, transformed on the go
driving on rough terrain can become a very complex task, requiring to go to a lot of compromises. A vehicle equipped with tracks, to cope with this task without any problems, however, the crawler becomes ineffective, when all the ...
Google refused the doubtful cooperation with the Pentagon at the AI
the Rejection of the Google over American military project on artificial intelligence began to Mature inside technogiant. But in the last few weeks spilled out. As several staff members resigned in protest against the work Google ...
How Fukushima changed robotics and the Japanese awakened the industry
In March 2011, in Japan swept the catastrophic earthquake that triggered a terrible tsunami. Killed thousands of people and damage billions of dollars given to understand that when disaster strikes, it is one of the worst in moder...
In the U.S. there was a competition for high-speed satellites
beings like to compete with each other in speed. But the usual race horses, bikes, cars and even helicopters and planes may soon be added competition for the fastest launch of the satellite cargo into orbit. At least the Agency ad...
Implants to improve memory you can use. And they work!
for a long time humanity, studying the brain, trying to find a way to artificially enhance brain activity. And the more advanced science becomes, the more likely it is that such a venture will be successful. For example, the recen...
Google employees spoke against the company assistance the Pentagon
last month it became known that Google has offered their resources to the Ministry of defense for the Maven project, a research initiative to develop computer vision algorithms that can analyze the videos. In response, more than 3...
DARPA resumed work on the "uncrackable" computer Morpheus
Cybersecurity in recent years has become particularly relevant for investment not only large corporations, but also the military. In light of recent events, when the worm WannaCry suddenly knocked out more than 300 000 computers w...
DARPA invests $ 100 million in the development of genetic weapons
according to the Guardian, the Office of advanced research projects USA (DARPA) began developing weapons through genetic engineering. To work on the project, the Department has allocated 100 million U.S. dollars. New weapons will ...
The us military has learned to control the mood of the people using the neural chips
according to the journal Nature, the research Agency DARPA funded the development of a system for automatically controlling the person's mood, which in real-time scans of brain activity and, if necessary, eliminates the "unwanted ...
DARPA will build modular computers based on the "cabletow"
We have the so-called "chiplet" — the thin silicon plates in some way reinterpreted the concept of the traditional chips. Developed by engineers at Palo Alto Research Center (a division of Xerox) chipley can be tens and hund...
DARPA is working on improving human emotions with computers
the U.S. Department of defense continues its work on brain-computer interfaces and, through its Office of advanced research projects (DARPA) has signed contracts with five research groups and one private company. Development of t...
DARPA is funding six developers brain-computer interface
communication between human brain and computer, which we are so often shown in Hollywood films remains a fantastic concept. But some large companies are keen to implement a similar interface to reality. Take Elon musk with his or...
DARPA will increase the efficiency of processors 1000 times
growth in the demand for the increase in computing power is forcing manufacturers to invent new methods of calculation. And yet the development of technology is not always in lockstep with the hardware. To correct this omission to...
Boeing started to create an experimental space plane Phantom Express
according to the publication Seeker, a well-known company-the manufacturer of aircraft Boeing together with DARPA in the framework of the programme for space exploration, XS-1 begin to create a supersonic space plane called Phanto...
DARPA looking for way to speed up the process of learning
If the brain is a common set of biological "wires" and "circuits", why not just upgrade its components to make us better and smarter? At least this is the theory behind a new project, the secret research Department of the advanced...
DARPA has developed a capture device drones
Gently, and without consequences to land the drone is quite difficult. Even harder to do this if the aircraft sits on a movable platform or, for example, walking on the sea carrier. In the framework of strengthening cooperation be...