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Video: DARPA’s Remote-Controlled Cyborg Beetle Takes Flight

Animals

Video: DARPA’s Remote-Controlled Cyborg Beetle Takes Flight Video: DARPA’s Remote-Controlled Cyborg Beetle Takes Flight

DARPA Wants Morphing Helicopter Blades By Yesterday

DARPA

DARPA Wants Morphing Helicopter Blades By Yesterday DARPA Wants Morphing Helicopter Blades By Yesterday

DARPA Wants ‘Precision Jamming’ To Take Enemies Out of the Conversation

DARPA

DARPA Wants ‘Precision Jamming’ To Take Enemies Out of the Conversation DARPA Wants ‘Precision Jamming’ To Take Enemies Out of the Conversation

AI

Clippy Enlists Clippy Enlists

Darpa’s Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests

DARPA

Darpa’s Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests Darpa’s Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests

Aviation

Darpa’s First Robotic Ornithopter Hovers, Flies Like a Hummingbird Darpa’s First Robotic Ornithopter Hovers, Flies Like a Hummingbird

By Anna Maria Jakubek

DARPA’s “Programmable Matter” Project Creating Shape-Shifting Materials

DARPA

DARPA’s “Programmable Matter” Project Creating Shape-Shifting Materials DARPA’s “Programmable Matter” Project Creating Shape-Shifting Materials

DARPA

Origami Optics Origami Optics

By Annemarie Conte and Esther Haynes

Building the Real Iron Man

DARPA

Building the Real Iron Man Building the Real Iron Man

By Gregory Mone

Darpa’s New Goal: A Plane That Flies for Five Years

DARPA

Darpa’s New Goal: A Plane That Flies for Five Years Darpa’s New Goal: A Plane That Flies for Five Years

By Seth Fletcher

The supersonic shape-shifting bomber Switchblade in flight

DARPA

The Supersonic Shape-Shifting Bomber The Supersonic Shape-Shifting Bomber

By Noah Shachtman

The Flying Luxury Hotel

Aviation

The Flying Luxury Hotel The Flying Luxury Hotel

By Joshua Tompkins

Robots Go to War

DARPA

Robots Go to War Robots Go to War

By Preston Lerner

PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview: Update #3

DARPA

PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview: Update #3 PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview: Update #3

By Elizabeth Svoboda

DAD's Toyota Truck equipped with laser-based navigation

DARPA

PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview: Update #2 PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview: Update #2

By Elizabeth Svoboda

Darpa's blue team making tweaks to the Ghostrider

DARPA

PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview

By Elizabeth Svoboda

DARPA

Trust Me–I’m a Robot Trust Me–I’m a Robot

By Gregory Mone

mechanic fixing a car at the DARPA's Challenge

DARPA

From Darpa Grand Challenge 2004DARPA’s Debacle in the Desert From Darpa Grand Challenge 2004DARPA’s Debacle in the Desert

By Joseph Hooper