A team at The University of Tokyo recently introduced SPIDAR – a SPherIcally vectorable and Distributed rotors assisted Air-ground amphibious quadruped Robot. SPIDAR is a novel air-ground amphibious quadruped robot that has multimodal locomotion capability […]
A team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a technique of tracking human bodies through walls using WiFi signals. While the technology has already existed for a few years, the new technique has the WiFi […]
A group of researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, and other collaborating institutions have developed hybrid bioelectronic robots, which they state are the first to combine soft materials, living muscle, and microelectronics. […]
Vestas – an energy solutions provider based in Denmark – has introduced its new stand-alone business, BladeRobots. BladeRobots is an automated robotic technology solution for the maintenance of wind turbines. According to Vestas, the system […]
Researchers at the Delft University of Technology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and VSLGlobal navigation satellite systems (GNSS) have created a robust and highly accurate positioning system called SuperGPS. Current positioning systems in use – such as […]
The US Army has started to receive the first of tens of thousands of augmented reality goggles designed to make soldiers more effective in close combat. The Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) was developed from […]
The U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) has awarded Raytheon subsidiary Collins Aerospace a contract for the latest version of the Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing Systems […]
DARPA is seeking companies to develop real-time modeling for assimilative ionospheric and high-frequency (HF) radio propagation. The project – called Ouija TA-2 – is expected to improve communications and sensing. HF signals are reflected by […]
The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics Mission Systems a contract worth US $15 million to develop concepts for the Terrestrial Layer System-Echelons Above Brigade (TLS-EAB), an electronic warfare platform. “The Terrestrial Layer […]
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has issued a sources-sought notice for the Ocean Dynamics and Prediction Engineering and Software Development project. The overall mission of the project is to gain an improved understanding of the […]
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