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- Cool photo of DARPA's Legged Squad Support System (LS3) a robotic "pack mule" prototype during Monday’s demonstration at Joint Base Myer - Henderson Hall. For more information on LS3 check out http://go.usa.gov/rvzF
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- New video: Robo “pack mule” capabilities demonstration
- Robo "pack mule" exhibits reduced noise, new gaits and improved perception
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- College students and university teams are invited to rethink U.S. military transportation design. Grab some energy drinks and come design the future.
- Attention high school teams! Tomorrow, Saturday, Sept 8th at 1PM EDT is the official kickoff for the Zero Robotics challenge. There will be a live webcast at http://www.zerorobotics.org/ and on NASA TV!
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DARPA’s Cheetah robot—already the fastest legged robot in history—just broke its own land speed record of 18 miles per hour (mph). In the process, Cheetah also surpassed another very fast mover: Usain Bolt. According to the International Association of Athletics Federations, Bolt set the world speed record for a human in 2009 when he reached a peak speed of 27.78 mph for a 20-meter split during the 100-meter sprint. Cheetah was recently clocked at 28.3 mph for a 20-meter split. The Cheetah had a slight advantage over Bolt as it ran on a treadmill, the equivalent of a 28.3 mph tail wind, but most of the power Cheetah used was to swing and lift its legs fast enough, not to propel itself forward. — with ApiNhellgod Hellgod. - This new gel stretches to 21x its length, recoils and heals itself
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- DARPA’s Cheetah Robot Bolts Past the Competition
- Cheetah bot runs at 28.3 mph, beating Usain Bolt's record.
- DoD leads the field in medical treatment of traumatic brain injury. 95% return to service for troops with mild cases http://go.usa.gov/rmXh
- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, like the NIH “superbug” (http://go.usa.gov/rPq5) can lead to the overwhelming blood infection sepsis. By playing a game, you may help DARPA develop a treatment http://go.usa.gov/rQhV
- High School students: DARPA and National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA have a math and science competition that is out of this world! Learn how you could take control of satellites on the International Space Station at http://ow.ly/dn5u9
- DARPA's Optical Lattice Emulator program seeks to devise a means to understand and explore the fully quantum mechanical treatment of materials. MIT's work on the program is opening new doors to understanding and potentially controlling elementary particles. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/spin-diode-paper.html
- Programmable SPHERES approach each other aboard the International Space Station during the in-orbit final event of the Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge in June. Three finalist teams from the online competition developed algo...rithms to enable a satellite to approach and orient itself with a tumbling or spinning object in space. The algorithms were programmed into the SPHERES and flown aboard the ISS. The scenario was designed to support DARPA’s Phoenix program by simulating one of the key maneuver challenges that the Phoenix spacecraft will face in approaching a non-controlled, retired satellite. http://go.usa.gov/rnRASee More
- No Labor Day plans? Play this game and help DARPA develop a treatment for sepsis
- Do you crave cutting-edge design? Team up with universities, manufacturers and do-it-yourselfers to engineer a Fast, Adaptable, Next-Generation Ground Vehicle (FANG). Visit VehicleFORGE.org to learn more about the FANG Design Challenges.
- *BEEP* Come in DARPA Mission Control. We are 1 step closer to capturing retired satellites *BEEP*
- DARPA researchers develop a self-charging power cell that converts mechanical energy to chemical energy
- Study funded by DARPA marks 1st demonstration of neural control of iridescence in a squid. http://ow.ly/dhOo8
- Researcher at Iowa State University - College of Engineering seeks advanced material processing methods to create materials with complex microstructures
- Imagine if we could understand the language 2 neurons use to communicate. Read about DARPA work at Northeastern University
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