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Robot-Car Finalists Rev Up for DARPA’s Urban Road Rally

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Eleven robotic vehicles will compete in the final race Saturday of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge event, the group announced Thursday. Selected from a group of 35 that participated in qualifying events over the past week or so, the 11 finalists will now have to successfully complete a complex, 60-mile urban…

Internet Habits and the Presidency

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

When it comes to the Internet, Republican presidential candidate John McCain recently said that he’s “an illiterate who has to rely on his wife for any assistance he can get.” In an era where the Internet is playing an ever greater role, does such an admission matter, and does it say anything important about the…

IBM, Academics Seek to Create a Computer That’s More Like Us

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

IBM and five universities are receiving funding from a government agency to build a supercomputer — but not just any supercomputer. They’ve been tasked with building hardware and software that mimics the human brain. “There are no computers today that can even remotely approach the robust and versatile functionality of the brain,” said Dharmendra Modha,…

Movable Prosthetics: The Biomechanical Interface

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The woman who can feel roughness or smoothness in her artificial hands for the first time in years; the child whose artificial leg lengthens as he grows; the previously armless man who can reach into a cabinet above his head to prepare dinner; machines that will some day register sensations in much the same way…

The Roadblocks to Making Prosthetic Miracles Happen Every Day

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) approaches its self-imposed deadline to make high-tech prosthetics that begin to approach the abilities of natural limbs by 2009, the research communities that have made it happen are beginning to ask, “Can we create companies that can turn a mind-blowing prototype or demo into real products?” Veterans,…

Social Networkers to Chase Red Balloons for $40K Prize

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In the 1956 Oscar-winning short film “The Red Balloon,” it was the balloon that did all the chasing of a little French boy. This weekend, you can turn the tables on the helium-filled children’s playthings as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and its Network Challenge — a race to be the…

Technologies That Could Define the Next Century

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

I’m writing this from the Volkswagen/Audi event at Stanford University in California where the German Chancellor is presenting the first robotic car designed to race, without a driver, up Pikes Peak. The event is to open the Whale; the Stanford Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory, which, somewhat sadly, came shortly after NUMMI, the last California car…

Next-Gen Battery Tech Could Help Power Plants Go With the Flow

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Green tech company A123 on Monday launched a spinoff, 24M, which will commercialize next-generation energy storage systems based on its technology. 24M has received funding from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, as well as venture capitalists. The company will work with MIT and Rutgers University to commercialize A123’s technology. Chipping Away…

Through the Looking Glass: 3D Everywhere

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

“What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?” That’s the question Alice asks at the beginning of Lewis Carroll’s classic adventure. Perhaps Mr. Carroll knew more than he realized. 3D Movies. Multitouch screens. iPads. Everywhere you look, consumers increasingly demand more of an “experience” when engaging with their content, be it a…

Etiket: DARPA