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Google Rejects Military Funding In Robotics -- Defense Tech Google doesn’t want the U.S. military’s money. Even though the Internet sear...

Phantom Swift, built by Boeing, features two large lift fans ¿ inside the fuselage ¿ that provide efficient vertical lift. Once the aircr...

DARPA Putting Laser Turrets On Fighter Jets Next Year -- DVice Our first foray into laser-equipped combat aircraft was the Airborne La...

U.S. Navy Diver DARPA wants a new dive suit that automatically monitors the diver's physiology and adjusts his or her air mixture acc...

Meet ‘Robbie’: Darpa’s Seeing, Feeling, Two-Armed Robot -- Danger Room It’s only been three months since the Pentagon’s latest robot — the o...

An artist's rendering of the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency / April 20, 2012) Pentag...

Climbing Stairs And Push Ups: The Latest Advancements To The Military Robot (And Family) Designed To Replicate A Human -- Daily Mail What co...

Startup Innovega will supply augmented-reality contact lenses and glasses to DARPA. (Credit: Innovega) Pentagon Eyes Augmented Reality Displ...

DARPA's Robotics Challenge is a contest to design robots for dangerous disaster relief situations from natural or industrial disasters. ...

As if existing robots, like the Army's Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR), weren't humanoid enough -- Darpa wants next-gen r...

Former DARPA Chief Regina Dugan Talks Hypersonic Gilders and Hummingbirds at TED -- Popular Science PopSci’s favorite DARPA head turned Goog...

SeeMe Satellites The SeeMe program would give warfighters the ability to receive timely imagery of their specific overseas location directly...

Video: Darpa’s Robotic Cheetah Sets Racing Record -- Danger Room Trust me, gym rat. Your outrageously badass treadmill workout has nothing o...

Find The Military's Hidden QR Codes And Rake In $40,000 -- MSNBC/Innovation You'll likely need your social media networks for scaven...

Adaptive Vehicle Make: DARPA's Plan To Revolutionize Auto Manufacturing -- Popular Mechanics The Pentagon's mad scientists aim to th...

Darpa Dodges Obama Budget Death Ray, Keeps Its $2.8 Billion -- The Danger Room For most of the U.S. military’s far-flung community of scient...

Cyborg Beetle Aktakka, et al. via PhysOrg Scientists Fit Cyborg Beetles With Generators That Turn Their Own Wings Into Power Plants -- Popul...

Space Travel: Finding The Technology To Traverse The Stars -- L.A. Times The research-and-development arm of the U.S. military is launching ...

Video: The Evolution of DARPA's Robotic Hummingbird, From Start to Finish -- Popular Science Of all the DARPA projects we follow here at...

FIRST Robotics Competition Taking a cue from the FIRST Robotics Competition, DARPA is offering prize-based challenges to inspire high school...