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Google Glass may have enjoyed the unique position of being the primary brand of wearable glasses, but there are other who are tinkering with similar technologies. U.S. military, for instance, commissioned ARC4 which is a head-mounted augmented reality system.

We have seen some truly impressive robots in the recent past. But a new robot, unveiled at ongoing DARPA Robotics Challenge outdoes them all because it packs some extraordinary strength.

Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has been hosting a DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) since last year that challenged some participants to create robots that can be used in the real world. Space agency NASA accepted the challenge and hence, had been building a humanoid rescue robot named Valkyrie. Lately, NASA has unveiled Valkyrie. It…

Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and NASA have developed unmanned scramjet Boeing X-51A (also known as X-51A WaveRider) and it is used in tests to achieve hypersonic speed (a velocity of at least five times that of sound in the same medium under the same conditions).…

The more higher-resolution images of the Earth captured from space, the better will be for researchers to do their job. Although there are many spectacular telescopes capable of taking higher-resolution images of space from the Earth, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has come up with a new folding space telescope called Membrane…

We have come to know that the Pentagon is looking for a few good space planes that would be fast in speed and need to be cheap in price. There's one more condition -- the space planes need to be reusable. Keeping Pentagon's demand in mind, lately DARPA has launched Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program.

The GPS-based navigation system used worldwide has seen a boon in usage in recent years. But the satellite-based navigation system isn’t without its shortcomings – it doesn’t work in indoors or tunnels. This could be a serious problem for military users. Hence, DARPA has made a self-sufficient navigation system that can aid users when GPS is…

Many of us heard about DARPA's (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) air-drones equipped with 1.8-gigapixel camera for surveillance. Those 1.8 Giga-pixel super high-resolution cameras are called Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System (ARGUS-IS). So far, we knew nothing about ARGUS-IS except the featured…

Pentagon's research wing, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), often comes up with the craziest of ideas. Yet most of these are viable and very important in scientific terms. The latest from DARPA is a new program called 'Pheonix' which aims to re-use parts of the old, discarded satellites to make new satellites.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded researchers of MLB Company of Santa Clara, California, for making such a drone that would be able to fly along with something from one place to another. And now the U.S. researchers have managed to make an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) called V-Bat that can carry loads of a 6-foot claw…