by Michael Belfiore | Jul 5, 2021 | Blog
The Biden Administration is proposing a new federal agency modeled after DARPA — the Pentagon agency responsible for jumpstarting the internet, GPS, self-driving cars, and many other breakthroughs. From President Biden’s address to Congress in April: The National...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog
It was in 2007, during the DARPA Urban Challenge in the Mojave Desert, that self-driving cars first proved that they could navigate city streets with traffic to complete what may well have been the world’s slowest auto race. Speed was limited to posted limits of...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog
When I wrote about DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program in Popular Science back in 2007, the editors, without running it by me first, called it out on the cover with a headline that sold the project as creating a “bionic arm that’s better than...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog
Karl Castleton, head of Team Grit, the all-volunteer DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) contender out of Grand Junction, Colorado, sent me this photo of the team’s robot, Cog-Burn. The DRC Finals is going down this June 5-6 at Fairplex in Pomona, California....
by Michael Belfiore | Aug 1, 2014 | Articles, Blog
DARPA, the government agency that gave us the Internet and stealth aircraft, has come up with some pretty interesting program names over the years. The names are as unique as the program managers who run them, and reflect the personalities of these mavericks of...
