• The problem is that we have imbecile robots, to programme into a robot enough information to create an imbecile dog level of intelligence would take a team about 300 years. (newmars.com)
  • So we try to create self learning robots, these robots learn for themselves and as they grow they get brighter. (newmars.com)
  • I don't understand why you would want learning robots for something like the Darpa challenge. (newmars.com)
  • I think you are going the wrong way by wanting to create a mammal like intelligence in robots. (newmars.com)
  • He's helped hunt down replicants and save humanity from genocidal Cylon robots of our own making. (popsci.com)
  • A battalion of 120 military robots is to be fitted with swarm intelligence software to enable them to mimic the organised behaviour of insects. (impactlab.com)
  • Robots can survive by eating Insects and herbs. (techypod.com)
  • By learning how to harness this process, she said the Pentagon could potentially build airplane wings that automatically adjust their shape for different conditions or so-called " soft robots " that can adapt to their environment through decentralized intelligence, much like an octopus. (defenseone.com)
  • But the development of robots and "killer robots" and weaponizable insects and micro-insects are also one of DARPA's major research areas. (captain-planet.net)
  • University of Colorado, Boulder researchers seek to build a swarm of Droplet robots and have turned to crowdfunding. (techxplore.com)
  • As Sandrine Ceurstemont reports, 'combining living and machine components could eventually make robotic systems more effective. (ieee.org)
  • From all the research that Celeste has done, she believes that Covid is a Nano-Fusion of biological life and robotic construct. (eindtijdnieuws.com)
  • Go wild with the robotic submarine stalkers, the lightning harnessing , and the cyborg insect spies . (popsci.com)
  • Others think they are, well, dragonflies -- an ancient order of insects that even biologists concede look about as robotic as a living creature can look. (blogspot.com)
  • The technical challenges of creating robotic insects are daunting, and most experts doubt that fully working models exist yet. (blogspot.com)
  • he Darpa-funded concept vehicle from Robert Finkelstein of Robotic Technology in Washington, D.C., will use cameras and radar-like sensors to spot twigs and leaves. (techypod.com)
  • The Insect Allies programme aims to use bugs to disperse genetically modified (GM) viruses to crops. (independent.co.uk)
  • Making their case in the journal Science , the team noted that if Insect Allies' research cannot be justified, it could be perceived as breaching the UN's Biological Weapons Convention. (independent.co.uk)
  • An article appearing October 4, 2018 in Science magazine deals with a U.S. Defense Department project named "Insect Allies" which began in 2017 and runs for four years. (counterpunch.org)
  • If indeed the Insect Allies program had been programmed as advertised, then consideration might have been given to regulatory mechanisms applying to food produced through HEGAA and about to enter national and international markets. (counterpunch.org)
  • The lead author of the new Science Policy Forum report, Richard Guy Reeves from the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, says the Insect Allies program is a disturbing example of dual-use research in which DARPA, in addition to helping out farmers, is also working on a potential weapon. (gizmodo.com)
  • Insect Allies was announced in November 2016, and it currently involves research contracts in excess of $27 million. (gizmodo.com)
  • Recently, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency website published content about a genetic modification program called "Insect Allies. (watchingamerica.com)
  • Is the Insect Allies bioengineering program exclusively an agricultural project? (watchingamerica.com)
  • She explains in layman's terms that the Insect Allies bioengineering program modifies genes inside plant viruses, which insects consume and transmit, to confer protective traits to target plants and protect the crop system from damage. (watchingamerica.com)
  • Shao Yongling: According to DARPA's hypothesis, in the event of a natural disaster or a sudden bioweapon attack against major crops, the Insect Allies bioengineering program will rapidly deploy insects carrying genetically engineered viruses to the threatened crops. (watchingamerica.com)
  • Although the Insect Allies bioengineering program seems to be a food security project, it is led by a U.S. military agency responsible for the development of advanced weaponry. (watchingamerica.com)
  • DARPA states that the purpose of the Insect Allies bioengineering program is to protect U.S. cropping systems. (watchingamerica.com)
  • Spectrum reported on the topic back in February, when DARPA-funded researchers presented a cyborg moth outfitted with a brand new radio at the normally bone-dry International Solid State Circuits Conference. (ieee.org)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)is providingfour U.S. Universities with $45 million in funding to enable researchers to alter the gene make-up of plants grown as crops on farms. (counterpunch.org)
  • DARPA researchers are trying to insert altered genetic material into viruses, arrange for those viruses to infect certain insects, and then transfer the insects with doctored viruses to plants being grown for food. (counterpunch.org)
  • In one approach, researchers funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are inserting computer chips into moth pupae -- the intermediate stage between a caterpillar and a flying adult -- and hatching them into healthy "cyborg moths. (blogspot.com)
  • Now researchers have created a sensory map for smell. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The researchers provide evidence that the fruit fly's olfactory system, which Su described as simple yet elegant, is structured to give the insect the ability to make quick assessments of odors in an unusual way that circumvents synaptic communication, which is metabolically expensive. (sciencedaily.com)
  • These are the same folks who brought you mind-control weapons, cyborg insects, synthetic blood, mechanical elephants, programmable shape-shifting matter, and so much more. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Needless to say, there are concerns about how this technology might be used-especially in consideration of its primary funder, namely DARPA, and by extension, the Pentagon. (gizmodo.com)
  • It's been a long time since a Pentagon project from the DARPA labs truly evoked a "WTF DARPA? (popsci.com)
  • Bio warfare scientists using diplomatic cover test man-made viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries across the world. (dilyana.bg)
  • But instead of modifying seeds in a lab, farmers would send fleets of insects into their crops, where the genetically modified bugs would do their work, "infecting" the plants with a special virus that passes along the new resilience genes. (gizmodo.com)
  • However, it cannot be ruled out that this research, conducted by the U.S. military to use insects to transmit genetically modified viruses to field crops and thus artificially control crop yields or mitigate a failed harvest, could also be used by the U.S. military to develop bioweapons. (watchingamerica.com)
  • Take EcoBot II, the tambourine-size fly-eating machine built by Bristol Robotics Laboratory in England. (techypod.com)
  • Your blog is a valuable and engaging article for us, and also I will share it with my companions who need this info manufacturing robotics tire equipment . (techypod.com)
  • In the years ahead, the most promising projects could spin off into their own full-fledged DARPA programs, with the potential transforming aviation, robotics, nanomaterials and an untold number of other fields, according to NAC Program Manager Jiangying Zhou. (defenseone.com)
  • Last week, Danger Room reported that DARPA's cyber-insect race has yielded a tangible result: a live beetle that can be steered remotely. (ieee.org)
  • from darpa's earliest defensive advances to hundreds of ongoing programs, jacobsen exposes both sides of the darpa coin: the fantastic technological advances from which we all benefit, and the darker side drawn up in a race for military supremacy. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • Their long-term goal is to use Cas9-expressing mosquitoes together with another technology - called gene drives - to insert and spread genes that suppress the insects while avoiding the resistance that evolution would typically favor. (universityofcalifornia.edu)
  • Gene drives can be used to bias genetic inheritance in favor of rapidly spreading, self-destructive genes - such as those that disrupt fertility - and could be an environmentally friendly and cost-effective way to suppress populations of disease-spreading insects. (universityofcalifornia.edu)
  • CRISPR is a tool developed in the past decade that has made it dramatically easier to make precise edits to the genes of everything from viruses and bacteria to mosquitos and humans. (vox.com)
  • In 2018, British publisher The Independent reported that the U.S. military's plan to spread viruses using insects could create a "new class of biological weapons," scientists warn. (captain-planet.net)
  • No agency admits to having deployed insect-size spy drones. (blogspot.com)
  • from agent orange in vietnam to insect-sized drones in use today, from the earliest networked computers and the internet to smart rockets and war zones under 24-hour video surveillance, darpa is responsible for innovations that have changed the course of war, national security, and strategic planning at the highest levels. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • We learn how DARPA was responsible during the Vietnam War for both Agent Orange and the development of the world's first armed drones, and how after 9/11 the agency sparked a national controversy over surveillance with its data-mining research. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
  • However, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ( Darpa ), which is responsible for developing military technologies in the US, says it is merely trying to alter crops growing in fields by using viruses to transmit genetic changes to plants. (independent.co.uk)
  • But this seemingly inoffensive goal has been slammed by the scientists, who say the plan is simply dangerous and that insects loaded with synthetic viruses will be difficult to control. (independent.co.uk)
  • The viruses will make genetic modifications to the crops to protect the U.S. agricultural production system and to ensure that Americans have food on their plates. (watchingamerica.com)
  • Using insects as a carrier for viruses is characterized by low costs and difficulty in detecting. (watchingamerica.com)
  • However, in all modified virus applications to date, rigorous efforts have been made to eliminate (or, if this is not possible, minimize) the capacity of viruses to spread in the environment between host individuals. (mpg.de)
  • since its inception in 1958, the defense advanced research projects agency, or darpa, has grown to become the defense department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • DARPA has been founded in 1958 and is developing hardware and software for the US military. (captain-planet.net)
  • Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency's original mission was to create "the unimagined weapons of the future. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
  • DARPA is funding all kinds of work that will result in cybernetic insects, or hybrids of biological and electronic bugs, whose implanted electronic controls make them respond to remote control. (ieee.org)
  • These are living things which have been implanted with cybernetic implants to make them controllable. (stevenmcollins.com)
  • A new technology in which insects are used to genetically modify crops could be converted into a dangerous, and possibly illegal, bioweapon, alleges a Science Policy Forum report released today. (gizmodo.com)
  • The Policy Forum piece also notes how transgenic virus-infected and genetically altered food crops could, conceivably, be made available to national or international markets, and that no regulatory framework exists to handle this. (gizmodo.com)
  • For BETR, "DARPA intends to use any available signal, be it optical, biochemical, bioelectronic, or mechanical, to directly monitor the body's physiological processes and then to stimulate them to bring them under control, thereby speeding healing or avoiding scarring or other forms of abnormal healing. (sociable.co)
  • This is a sole source synopsis for the acquisition of Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) platforms in anticipation of a new DARPA/DSO program called Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA). The program intends to develop novel representations and algorithms to enable small air platforms to fly fast (e.g., at least 20 m/s) in cluttered environments (e.g., indoors) using on-board autonomy with small size, weight, and power components. (technovelgy.com)
  • One, Agragene, also intends to alter plants and insects. (akbarilab.com)
  • Now I've got my soap box speech over with this brings me on to the next piece of the "creating synthetic content" jigsaw puzzle that ups the table stakes in this game even more - the ability to use Creative Machines to not just create photorealistic fake celebrity faces but also fake human bodies too. (fanaticalfuturist.com)
  • A GAN is an AI that pits two artificial neural networks against one another and in my opinion they're incredibly interesting because they're currently being used to create everything from new products and inter-planetary landers , as well as synthetic content, to hacking the biometric security systems on smartphones. (fanaticalfuturist.com)
  • This artificial and synthetic chimeric organism will be remotely controllable via the Internet, thanks to the connectivity capabilities of both graphene and insect chitin. (xochipelli.fr)
  • Under CRISPR, the sequences are combined with certain enzymes to achieve "editing" of the genetic make-up of an entirely different organism. (counterpunch.org)
  • The addition of Cas9 will enable the use of the CRISPR gene editing tool to make efficient, targeted changes to the mosquitoes' DNA. (universityofcalifornia.edu)
  • I asked Ethan Bier, a professor at UC San Diego and one of the first people to help build an actual working CRISPR gene drive, how soon a drive targeting malaria could be released, as a scientific matter. (vox.com)
  • This new vector of contamination, in fact, is the chitin of insects which constitutes a poison for the human organism - at least, when it comes to notorious and daily accumulations. (xochipelli.fr)
  • The NC State team isn't the only research group exploring this line of technology either - The University of Michigan, in conjunction with DARPA, has been developing their "Hybrid insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System" using a similar technique on a unicorn beetle . (listverse.com)
  • Then, as the beetle develops, its tissues will grow around the mechanical device, creating a true insect cyborg. (listverse.com)
  • The Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems project aims to create literal shutterbugs -- camera-toting insects whose nerves have grown into their internal silicon chip so that wranglers can control their activities. (blogspot.com)
  • I think we can assume that scientists will be attempting to integrate mechanical control implants into far higher life forms than insects. (stevenmcollins.com)
  • That indicates to me that the actual state of developing organic/mechanical hybrids is very likely much further advanced than merely working with insect species-as the first link admits can easily be done already. (stevenmcollins.com)
  • In addition to the sensory manipulation, DARPA is also placing electrodes along the wing muscles, allowing them to control the beetle in flight. (listverse.com)
  • It is very much easier to kill or sterilise a plant using gene editing than it is to make it herbicide or insect-resistant," explains Reeves. (independent.co.uk)
  • Reeves and colleagues contest the use of insects as a vehicle for genetic enhancement is a dreadfully bad idea because they can't be controlled, and that overhead sprays to deliver the HEGAAs would be more prudent. (gizmodo.com)
  • Female flies survive the winter because their bodies make cryoprotectants. (akbarilab.com)
  • Brains Byte Back guests include founders, CEOs, and other influential individuals making a big difference in society, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies. (sociable.co)
  • They also say that despite being in operation since 2016 and distributing $27m in funds to scientists, Darpa has failed to properly justify the existence of such a programme. (independent.co.uk)
  • Only recently have scientists come to understand how insects fly -- a biomechanical feat that, despite the evidence before scientists' eyes, was for decades deemed "theoretically impossible. (blogspot.com)
  • Even as the technology advanced to make railguns a reality, scientists were faced with the secondary challenge of fabricating projectiles of a material that could withstand the pressure of being thrown at such high speeds. (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
  • Under its Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program, scientists at prestigious research labs are exploring how to make wearable brain-machine interfaces that could ultimately enable diverse national security applications such as control of active cyber defense systems and swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles, or teaming with computer systems to multitask during complex missions. (tisfightback.com)
  • One down here, there's conductive hydrogel in order to create artificial nerves, and then the graphene which we're going to be talking about, helical micromotors, and of course as you can see, they are going to infiltrate your brain with a plethora of different nanoparticles and Syn-Bios. (eindtijdnieuws.com)
  • Ultimately, the insects would also need to carry surveillance equipment, such as microphones, cameras, or gas sensors, and to transmit whatever data they collected back to military officials. (grist.org)
  • Like many of the so called generative artificial intelligence tools, including the tools used to create artwork that sold at Christies recently for over $400,000, this latest demonstration was created using something called a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). (fanaticalfuturist.com)
  • Gillani's background makes him a thought leader in his space, which will prove invaluable for readers of The Sociable as we continue to produce fresh, original content that digs deeper than the daily headlines on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and the blockchain. (sociable.co)
  • DARPA believes that "recent advances in biosensors, actuators, and artificial intelligence could be extended and integrated to dramatically improve tissue regeneration. (sociable.co)
  • neuroscientists building an artificial brain, cell biologists working on limb regeneration, the nobel laureate who invented the laser. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • DARPA is preparing for a future in which a combination of unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, and cyber operations may cause conflicts to play out on timelines that are too short for humans to effectively manage with current technology alone," said Al Emondi, the N3 program manager. (tisfightback.com)
  • The project, which received funding this week from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is aimed at developing ways to perform missions such as minesweeping and search and rescue with minimum intervention from human operators. (impactlab.com)
  • The project is run by US software company Icosystems, which specialises in creating programs that mimic behaviours found in nature. (impactlab.com)
  • The catch is that the project is supported by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). (captain-planet.net)
  • We reached out to DARPA and the project teams for details about two of them, particularly - Brainstorm project led by Battelle and MOANA project let by Rice University. (tisfightback.com)
  • It's a lot of money from their perspective, but from our end, it's only enough to pay a salary and a few experiments," says Akbari, an expert on insect genetics and one of the participants in the DARPA program. (akbarilab.com)
  • The authors hold that gene modification achieved through HEGAA doesn't fit with the intention proclaimed by DARPA, that of protecting U.S. agriculture. (counterpunch.org)
  • But it's the "secondary intention" alluded to by DARPA that's raising the most serious flags-the use of HEGAAs as a defensive response to threats. (gizmodo.com)
  • The report is a response to a ongoing research program funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). (gizmodo.com)
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched the Bioelectronics for Tissue Regeneration (BETR) program on Wednesday for the intelligent healing of complex wounds - like those suffered on the battlefield. (sociable.co)
  • In addition to revealing the intricate mechanism of military decision making, EYE IN THE SKY puts on display some of the latest advances in military hardware, weapons and instruments that seem to belong more to the realm of science fiction than the Department of Defense. (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
  • Aljadeff is funded by a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award to investigate such questions. (sciencedaily.com)
  • More specifically, it is the brainchild of the notorious DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The defense advanced research projects agency (darpa) has funded innovative scientific research and technology developments in the field of brain-computer interfaces (bci) since the 1970s. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • The article mentions that this "Bio-bot" program was backed financially by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, which funds cutting-edge technological projects which generally have military applications. (stevenmcollins.com)
  • The U.S. Department of Defense's research agency, DARPA, is also funding experimentation to determine if lab-modified self-spreading animal vaccines can prevent the spillover of pathogens to U.S. military personnel in areas where they operate. (mpg.de)
  • Some of the most exotic research involving magnetism is sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA. (tisfightback.com)
  • The sprays kills the flies and pretty much every other insect, too, including bees. (akbarilab.com)
  • Oxitec's method is the latest example of what's known as the sterile insect technique, which has previously been used to eradicate or reduce populations of other harmful pests, such as screw flies. (captain-planet.net)
  • Insects could be turned into "a new class of biological weapon " using new US military plans, experts have warned. (independent.co.uk)
  • He added that despite the stated aims of the programme, it would be far more straightforward using the technology as a biological weapon than for the routine agricultural use suggested by Darpa. (independent.co.uk)
  • Implementing digital ID for products, investing in alternative proteins like insects, and. (sociable.co)
  • Take protein folding, the process by which proteins built by living cells contort themselves into the three-dimensional structures that let them function properly. (defenseone.com)
  • A railgun, which uses electromagnetic forces to accelerate a projectile down parallel rails, required a level of energy that for decades made the weapon no more than a sci-fi trope. (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
  • Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
  • They plan to develop remote-controlled "insect swarms with various sorts of different embedded…sensors. (listverse.com)
  • She believes that since we have allowed and created machines and technology to be so advanced, there should be no reason to fear what we have created, and cyborgs should be embraced because they are now part of human identities. (wikipedia.org)
  • We explore how knowledge & technology intersect to build a better, more sustainable future for humanity. (sociable.co)
  • Without a change in computing technology, the level of power consumption, fault tolerance, and cost necessary for large-scale multiphysics modeling may be enormous and impractical," DARPA officials wrote in the NAC solicitation. (defenseone.com)
  • Shao acknowledges that agriculture and food security is a national security issue, and so the prevention and control of crop diseases and insect pests is naturally a priority. (watchingamerica.com)
  • In this study, the Su lab collaborated with UC San Diego Neurobiology Assistant Professor Johnatan Aljadeff, who built a mathematical model which explains how electrical interactions help in extracting relevant information. (sciencedaily.com)
  • DARPA hopes to dispense with evolutionary randomness and assemble biological creatures, genetically programmed to live indefinitely and presumably do whatever their human masters want. (popsci.com)
  • And given recent advances, even skeptics say there is always a chance that some agency has quietly managed to make something operational. (blogspot.com)
  • Drone delivery is the ultimate convenience for our customers and these efforts create enormous opportunities to redefine convenience," said Mr. Delgado-Jenkins. (311institute.com)
  • Given that Darpa is a military agency, we find it surprising that the obvious and concerning dual-use aspects of this research have received so little attention," Felix Beck, a lawyer at the University of Freiburg, told The Independent . (independent.co.uk)
  • The defence agency maintains that "all work is conducted inside closed laboratories, greenhouses, or other secured facilities," and that the insects will have built-in lifespans to limit their spread. (gizmodo.com)
  • DARPA will provide a platform as GFE to FLA performers selected under an anticipated FLA broad agency announcement (BAA). (technovelgy.com)
  • The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • created by president eisenhower to prevent another sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency-and its imagination and scope-has expanded enormously with each passing year. (cognitive-liberty.online)
  • This year the U.S. military research agency DARPA began spending a similar amount to develop antidotes to gene drives , should they be used as a weapon. (akbarilab.com)
  • Interview with Michael Belfiore, author of book about defence research agency Darpa. (thebrowser.com)
  • If you are committed to translation and have an interest in current events, here is an unbeatable chance to perfect your art, publish your work and build your resume. (watchingamerica.com)
  • Building on this initial collaboration, the two companies have plans to expand drone delivery tests and work closely together, according to 7-Eleven EVP and Chief Merchandising Officer Jesus Delgado-Jenkins. (311institute.com)
  • Funding was from NIH and DARPA to support this work. (universityofcalifornia.edu)
  • Or you could just add a gene making them resistant to the malaria parasite, preventing its transmission to humans. (vox.com)
  • DARPA is hoping to see tests done in greenhouses in as few as two years, with maize being a high-priority crop. (gizmodo.com)
  • ACE: an efficient and sensitive tool to detect insecticide resistance-associated mutations in insect acetylcholinesterase from RNA-Seq data. (cdc.gov)
  • First, they say that DARPA has the wrong idea about hoping to overcome evolution's supposed randomness, and that evolution really represents a super-efficient design algorithm. (popsci.com)
  • But the reports surrounding Facebook would seem to justify a backlash, like this one about Facebook creating fake people to track and manipulate its real users (thanks to -J . (blogspot.com)
  • One of the primary ones is the ongoing activity of more than 400 military biological laboratories created by the United States in 25 countries, including former Soviet republics - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. (veteranstoday.com)
  • And because only female mosquitoes bite and suck blood from humans, the modified insects are thought to pose no danger to people. (captain-planet.net)
  • A New Clade of Insect-Specific Flaviviruses from Australian Anopheles Mosquitoes Displays Species-Specific Host Restriction. (cdc.gov)
  • Two years later, Theodore Maiman of Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu created the first functional laser. (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
  • And that's before we start evaluating its ability to eventually help people create even better fake news content. (fanaticalfuturist.com)
  • All of this news should make people who found the on demand era too slow jump for joy. (311institute.com)
  • It alleges that users are encouraged to hand over the personal data of other people -- including names, phone numbers, email addresses and more -- which Facebook is using to create 'extensive profiles' of non-users. (blogspot.com)
  • People want to surpass themselves and others, and, of course, make their life easier. (hitecher.com)
  • One of the most notorious drunk drivers in the Ottawa area has been found not criminally responsible on his latest impaired driving charges because of a mental disorder that makes him believe female celebrities are controlling his actions. (shawnhogan.com)
  • Bruce Sterling, in his Shaper/Mechanist universe, suggested an idea of an alternative cyborg called 'Lobster', which is made not by using internal implants, but by using an external shell (e.g. a powered exoskeleton). (wikipedia.org)
  • The amazing thing about this idea is that it actually has a strong chance of being made real. (grist.org)
  • When an idea has reached a certain point in its development, DARPA likes to show this publicly. (captain-planet.net)
  • Like I said, I am making this available to you, so you don't have to be scribbling a million miles a minute. (eindtijdnieuws.com)
  • DARPA has committed just a piddling $6 million out of next year's budget toward BioDesign. (popsci.com)
  • By 2005, the US Office of Naval Research was ready to make science fiction real when they ponied up over $250 million to develop a working railgun. (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
  • DARPA will offer each team up to $1 million in funding. (defenseone.com)