Brad Templeton writes "I (whom you may know as EFF Chairman, founder of early dot-com Clari.Net and rec.humor.funny) have just released a new series of futurist essays on the amazing future of robot cars, coming to us thanks to the DARPA Grand Challenges.... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Thu, Jul 24 2008
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| 29 Oct 07 |
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DARPA Grand Challenge: A Battle of Wits (Robot Cars) » digg [Jalopnik's desert stringer Curtis Walker is following the DARPA Grand Challenge, an annual race of autonomous ground vehicles, with a serious case of the techies. We'll have his reports today on the National Qualifying Event semifinals, like this one, as... |
| 19 Mar 08 |
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New BigDog Robot Video » slashdot John860 writes "The US company Boston Dynamics has released an amazing new video of its quadruped robot BigDog. The highlight of the video (at 1:24) shows how the robot starts slipping on ice, almost falls several times, but finally regains its balance... |
| 15 Mar 08 |
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DARPA Chief Outlines Array of Future Projects » slashdot coondoggie writes to tell us that DARPA announced a wide array of new projects in a report to the House Armed Services Committee that they will be funding in the near future. "everything from advanced network and communications implementations to powerful... |
| 26 Sep 07 |
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DARPA code teams compete on same K9 robot » the register (uk) Multiple-personality droid dog; mad science indeed DARPA, the Pentagon research bureau which likes to put the battiness back into battle-boffinry, is pressing ahead with its robot dog/packmule/mini-Imperial-Walker programme.… |
| 11 May 08 |
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DARPA Wants Matrix-style Virtual World for Cybergeddon » digg The US military's famed scientific wingnut farm, DARPA*, has released full details of its planned "National Cyber Range" - a mighty network which could be configured to simulate the cyberspace battlefields of the future. This would allow America's... |