One animal-inspired micro robot is the RoboBee, a device weighing less than a tenth of a gram, developed at Harvard’s Wyss ...

The boffins at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may be planning to study the science in the proposed new programs, but the wonks who devise acronyms -- we think it's a super-secret bureau ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) recently announced progress on a pair of characteristically futuristic projects: a computer chip that works like the human brain and a mission to ...

DARPA’s new MASH program aims to use autonomous robot medics to treat soldiers and save lives on the battlefield.

A mysterious blob sits on a lab table in Tulane University’s Stern Hall. It’s slimy, squishy and a little bigger than a hockey puck. Chemistry professor Scott Grayson calls it hydrogel, and his team ...

To get a view of the front lines in this story, one need not penetrate any secret government bunkers or fortified data centers. Instead, the action is proceeding directly beneath the halogen lit glare ...

The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT.

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Prologue -- Part I. The Cold War. The evil thing -- War games and computing machines -- Vast weapons systems of the future -- ...