NASA's Valkyrie robot is a six-foot 'superhero' designed to save you from disasters. NASA has created a robot for DARPA's upcoming Robotics Challenge Trials.
The Valkyrie is a 6-foot-2-inch humanoid machine with detachable arms, sonar sensors, mounted cameras, and a glowing Tony Stark-esque circle in the middle of its chest. The space agency says it's mobile and dexterous enough to enter disaster zones to provide search and rescue functions. Project and group lead for NASA JSC's Dextrous Robotics Lab, Nicolaus Radford, tells IEEE Spectrum that Valkyrie was designed specifically for the DARPA competition. Strong legs mean the robot's capable of moving around "degraded environments" typical of disaster-stricken areas, and cameras mounted on its head, body, forearms, knees, and feet, allow it to provide visual information back to its handlers. Extra data can be provided by the robot's sonar and lidar units. Valkyrie builds on the space agency's previous humanoid robot, Robonaut, currently in orbit around the Earth in the International Space Station.
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Phoenix aWarDOD. Jonathon Phillips: Facial recognition. 4 November 2013, SPIE Newsroom.
DOI: 10.1117/2.3201311.01 Jonathon Phillips works in the fields of computer vision, biometrics, face recognition, and human identification at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he works on designing grand challenges for advancing face recognition and visual biometric technology and science. His previous efforts include the Iris Challenge Evaluations, the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) and the Face Recognition Grand Challenge. From 2000-2004, Phillips was assigned to the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) as program manager for the Human Identification at a Distance program.
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. Its stated purpose is "to maximise the impact of science and technology for the defence and security of the UK.
"[3] History[edit] In July 2001, the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) was split into two parts, Dstl and Qinetiq. Dstl was established to carry out science and technology work that is best done within government,[4] while the majority and that suitable for industry was transferred to QinetiQ, a wholly owned government company before being floated on the stock exchange. Organisation[edit] Dstl is a trading fund owned by the Secretary of State for Defence. DARPA To Spend $70 Million Investigating Brain Implants. DARPA To Spend $70 Million Investigating Brain Implants. Can DARPA spark a DIY brain-scanning movement? Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (credit: DARPA) A working prototype of a low-cost electroencephalography device funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made its debut in New York this weekend, the first step in the agency’s effort to jumpstart a do-it-yourself revolution in neuroscience, The Verge reports.
Dr. DARPA's Mini kameleon spy robot. Sumerian_darpa2_zpsd586806b.png Photo by johnhovan. Moderna Snags $25M DARPA Grant to Fight Pandemics With mRNA Drugs. Luke Timmerman10/2/13 One of the wilder ideas in biotechnology just got a vote of confidence from the people who gave the world the Internet.
Cambridge, MA-based Moderna Therapeutics is announcing later today it has snagged a grant worth as much as $24.6 million over the next five years from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The U.S. military’s futuristic technology agency is committing the cash now to further develop Moderna’s messenger RNA drug technology to fight infectious diseases. By making this grant, the agency is betting on what could become a superfast, cheap, and unusually adaptable method for fighting today’s known pandemic threats, and the unknown threats of the future. #DARPA - Photos tagged DARPA on Instagram - 5th village. ToyotaVoice: From Robot Soldiers To Driverless Cars, DARPA Advances Innovation. By Ryan Galloway Atlas is 6-foot-2-inches tall, weighs over 300 pounds, and can see and maneuver around complex obstacles.
In the near future, he may be patrolling battlefields, natural disaster sites, and a host of other hostile environments. His work will be dangerous in the best of times, but never fear, Atlas is a robot. He represents a major step forward in robotics technology, and he’s being put through his paces at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Snowden, Booz Allen and the NSA. Edward Snowden, a high school dropout turned computer whiz kid, has catapulted to worldwide fame as one of the most significant leakers of vast surveillance programs by the National Security Agency, one of the most secretive government agencies in the United States.
Snowden, 29, leaked classified documents because he believed the US government's surveillance powers had become so immense and intrusive that he felt compelled to denounce them, he said in an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper. "The public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong," Snowden said in a video. Snowden has since fled to Hong Kong, where he is seeking refuge from possible prosecution. Computer skills Snowdown acquired computer skills at a community college where he eventually received a general equivalency degree. Edward Snowden has divulged details about NSA's data-collecting programs Booz Allen is a management and technology consulting firm located in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Obama Revolving Door: Ken Salazar to lobbying/law firm Wilmer Hale, Lieberman to Kasowitz. Tom Donilon Resigning: Obama National Security Adviser To Be Replaced By Susan Rice.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's top national security adviser Tom Donilon is resigning and will be replaced by Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who has been a lightning rod for Republican criticism over faulty explanations for the attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. Donilon has been a key foreign policy adviser to President Barack Obama. Macomb-OU INCubator gets DARPA grant - The Macomb Daily. The technology sector in Macomb County and the rest of the tri-county area received a shot in the arm recently when the Macomb-OU Incubator was awarded a $776,000 in grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.
The Michigan Economic Development Corp. selected the incubator earlier this month to administer the federal matching dollars, which are awarded to support research and development, spur new job creation and assist business innovation. The Macomb-OU Incubator was chosen by the MEDC because of its contacts with the defense industry in the county, and its strong ties to other sectors including manufacturing, electronics, life sciences and information technology, said Larry Herriman, the director of the Michigan DARPA Matching Funds Program and the assistant director of the incubator. “The goal of the program is to work with defense businesses and other businesses in the community,” he said. Re-booting business The prize money was $1 million.
DARPA-funded scientists 'mind-meld' rats across continents. They have also been able to make the rats cooperate in solving problems, creating what has been described as a "brain-net.
" The scientists effectively developed a means to pass information from the brain of one rat to the other exactly like computers hooked to the Web.
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Now, the freaky humanoid ‘bot is back. And this time, he has two arms. And a name. Meet Robbie. This particular robot was designed by RE2, a robotics firm in Pittsburgh, which showed him off to IEEE Spectrum at their International Conference on Robotics and Automation last week. DARPA developing inexpensive launch capability for small satellites. Avionics Intelligence - Rocket scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are working with five aerospace companies to develop rapid and inexpensive launch capability to place small satellites in orbit at a cost of less than $10,000 per pound. The contracts are part of the Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA) program, which seeks capability to launch a 100-pound satellite for a total cost of less than $1 million, which is about one-third of today's satellite launch costs.The goal of ALASA is to develop a significantly less expensive approach for launching small satellites routinely with at least a threefold reduction in costs compared to current military and U.S. commercial launch costs.
Small satellite payloads today cost more than $30,000 per pound to launch. ALASA seeks to launch 100-pound satellites for less than $10,000 per pound, or $1 million total, including range support costs. Defence.professionals. Russia to Create Military Skolkovo. Russia wants to set up a military innovation hub in Moscow Region similar to the country’s ambitious hi-tech development project at Skolkovo, Izvestia daily reported on Thursday. The idea of creating a military scientific research center was voiced by the League for Assistance to the Defense Industry, comprising the heads of Russia’s leading military corporations which lobbies in government for the sector, Izvestia said. In an interview with the daily, the League’s head and lawmaker Vladimir Gutenev said the center will boast leading specialists in defense technology and could be just the first of many. “If this project [military innovation hub] is implemented and bears fruits, similar centers will be created in Russian regions,” Gutenev told the paper.
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Gilead, AnaptysBio Ally to Discover Antibody Therapeutics. DSS 2012: bringing new IR sensors to market. "Modern asymmetric warfare imposes new and stringent requirements on the sensor technologies and image resolution needed by the war-fighter - which is good for business. " DARPA: Military’s Martial Law Robots Herding Humans? Brain matters. From labelling sleep brain patterns to anticipate epileptic fits to using thoughts to control objects, researchers at the University of Malta are studying the brain to improve our health, says Edward Duca. “Yes, this is the ability to control objects with your thoughts,” confirms Owen Falzon. Turn your Android device's camera into a Geiger counter with DARPA-funded app.
Image Insight on Monday announced the first free trial release of GammaPix for Android smartphones, an application that loosely measures gamma radiation with the phone's camera. The GammaPix gimmick is that it can detect radiation in different everyday situations, such as cosmic radiation while flying in an airplane, or gamma radiation in medical waste. DARPA, chipmakers seek partners to develop ultrafast, supersmart semiconductors. Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future. It's day one at the Singularity University: the opening address has just been delivered by a hologram. Craig Venter, who was one of the first scientists to sequence the human genome and created the first synthetic life form, is up next. And later, we will see two people, paralysed from the waist down, use robotic exoskeletons to rise up and walk. Energy Heat DARPA Seeks Non-Thermal Approaches To Thin-Film Deposition. Chemistry and physics researchers wanted to develop new approaches to reactant flux, surface mobility, reaction energy, by-product removal, nucleation and other components of thin-film deposition When the Department of Defense (DoD) wants to build a jet engine, it doesn’t put a team of engineers in a hangar with a block of metal and some chisels.
Jet engines are made up of individual components that are carefully assembled into a finished product that possesses the desired performance capabilities. Cerf's up: economic future tied to growth of ‘internet of things’ - Ireland’s communications news service. One of the internet’s founding fathers Vint Cerf, who co-invented TCP/IP technology – the platform upon which the internet runs – said that by the end of the decade every person and machine on the planet could conceivably be internet-connected. This means more economic opportunities will arise for IT-skilled economies, as the cost of internet-enabling anything falls. Siri's Voice Can Be Heard In Nuance's Guidance. DARPA Creates Catalyst Opportunity for On-Orbit Satellite Service Concept. Google online translation tops 200 mln users. Intel to use Cray IP to score boffo DARPA dosh. FAA forced to reveal 63 U.S. drone launch sites. The Real World (DARPA edition) DARPA: Seeing a new frontier in cyberwar.
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