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 | Jun 17, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Yesterday at a press conference in the Flatiron district in NYC, I and a few other journalists were treated to a showing and presentation of some spectacular video footage of the Earth from space by UrtheCast. From my report for Popular Mechanics, published today:...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 18, 2014 | Articles, Blog
NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter is set for Mars orbital insertion this weekend. The unmanned probe will fire its engines on Sunday at 9:37pm Eastern Time. And then mission controllers will have to white-knuckle it for 12.5 minutes to find out whether the maneuver was...
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...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 26, 2014 | Articles, Blog
DARPA program manager Gill Pratt announced details of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, or DRC, Finals today in a call with reporters. Eleven teams that competed in last December’s DRC Trials in Florida are getting $1.5 million in DARPA funding to continue to...
