Posts Tagged Darpa
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Big Dog – The Most Advanced Rough-Terrain Robot On Earth
Big Dog is a rough-terrain robot specially designed to run, walk, climb and carry heavy loads. It is powered by an engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. Big Dog’s size is about 3feet long, 2.5feet tall and weighs around 240lbs. It has four distinct legs that are like an animal’s a...
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Robotic Fly Takes Off
There are already many flying robots that exist but this robotic fly is the first at such a small scale. Enthused by a true fly, Prof. Wood and his team from Harvard University developed a 60 milligram robot with a three-centimeter wingspan that is able to achieve the flight performance of a re...
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DARPA Wants A Bigger BigDog
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA has just awarded a $32 million dollar contract to Boston Dynamics to create a bigger Bigdog. Last year, we met Boston Dynamics BigDog and he was quite efficient as an army companion. However, DARPA announced this year that they wanted a bigge...
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Biomimetics: Creating Robots from the Real Thing
Biomimetic is a field of robotic engineering primarily focused on developing nature-inspired robots. Biomimetic robots are designed to mimic or copy biological insects or animals' movements, functions and appearance. Biomimetic is somewhat new to the field of robotics, such that it's contribution...
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New Military Spy-Bat, A Tiny Disguise
Pentagon's research arm DARPA is into continuous innovation for miniature technologies that will be used as spies for actual military operations. The project costing $10 million dollar for the five-year development program of creating tiny electronic gadgets or robots intended only for military use ...
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Pentagon to Deploy Autonomous Fighting Robots in Battlefields
It looks like we're gearing towards robotic warfare! Have you seen the movie "District 9"?, although the bad guys were aliens, the concept of robotic war is evident. That was fiction though. In real life, more than 5000 lethal and nonlethal robots, with remote human intervention have already...
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JSEL Enables IRobot’s Military Bot
A palm-sized mobile robot was developed by IRobot primarily for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army Research Offices' vision to create the flexible military bot. ChemBot was the name given to the soft morphing robot that is able to traverse complex terrains an...