DARPA, the American Defence Department's technology agency, is also sponsoring research into power beaming.
If DARPA is developing new attack methodologies then the industry will develop new defenses in response.
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At this DARPA race, Levandowksi now has a position on Stanford's highly respected team.
Darpa was founded in 1958 to keep US military technology ahead of Cold War rivals.
When DARPA researchers connected computers between UCLA and Stanford in 1969, the Internet was born.
DARPA, the technology research arm of the Department of Defense, is also backing the firm.
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The Pentagon's Darpa research unit supported the Meshworm project, suggesting a potential military use.
The work will be funded under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Dynamic Coalitions Program.
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They were both entered into the DARPA Grand Challenge - a race for autonomous vehicles.
In a new call for research, Darpa is asking for proposals to devise prototype implantable biosensors.
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To spark the innovation necessary to reach that goal, DARPA launched its series of robotic races in 2004.
And the US defence research agency, Darpa, has been running a nationwide quantum biology network since 2010.
"DARPA has set the bar very high in this race, and no one is guaranteed to finish, " he says.
In reality, this year's competition may be DARPA's least friendly for quirky entrants.
In describing how Darpa applies the Heilmeier Catechism, Schnitzer focused first not on organizational structure or process but on people.
Meanwhile, Boston Dynamics and DARPA announced that their Cheetah robot can now hit 28MPH -- faster than Usain Bolt.
Decentralize SDIO, cut its staff from 269 to 100 and transfer directed energy weapons programs to DARPA or the services.
If DARPA funds something that solves a challenge, the military is nearly certain to adopt it, so the market functions well.
The research that inspired Ayasdi was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, and the National Science Foundation.
Earlier this month, the forward-thinkers over at DARPA announced plans to develop new technologies capable of identifying human life through walls.
Be sure to peep the video below, and we think you'll agree that DARPA's creation easily puts those sticky hands to shame.
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The Make and DARPA project around public education and high schools.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seeks trailblazers to explore the unknown in the areas of visual and geospatial data analysis.
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We've got Regina Dugan, who is the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, as many of you know.
The Air Force is well on its way to fulfilling DARPA's goals.
And, despite Superbot's impressive morphing abilities, Shen said DARPA's vision of a liquid-like robot was still a long way beyond existing technology.
DARPA's Innovation House Study, conducted with George Mason University in Arlington, Va.
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At the Darpa challenge he met Google founder Larry Page, who would attend the races hiding behind dark sunglasses and a hat.
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As Dr. Dugan noted in her recent testimony, DARPA has made a real effort to strengthen its ties with the academic community.
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It has been created by the Massachusetts robotics company Boston Dynamics and backed by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa).
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