Robot driven Chevy Tahoe to be tested in DARPA robotic vehicle challenge

We can see robots working efficiently in almost all fields. Now we have another field in which we will see robots replacing humans. Some researchers of Pittsburg have designed a car which drives by itself through traffic. The car has been equipped with latest software and hardware. It has several cameras, sensors and lasers and [...]

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Robot-driven cars to hit the roads by 2030

Apparently, all of us are going to be back seat drivers in the very near future since scientists are busy developing the next generation of robot-driven cars and foresee that they might be transporting humans by the year 2030. A competition that is going to be held in November this year by the US Defense [...]

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DARPA thinks of a shape-shifting ChemBot

Pentagon’s DARPA is sniffing the proposal of a shape-shifting chemical robot or the ChemBot made from soft, flexible materials. The morphing robot could break itself into parts, get through the openings much smaller than its own static dimensions, and then reform itself to the original shape to perform a military task. The prototype they are [...]

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Palm-sized LANdroid WiFi robots to help warfighters on the move

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has now come up with a unique way to develop LANdroid WiFi robots, which are intelligent crawling radio-relay robots with size equal to that of a deck of cards. LANdroids are there on the DARPA’s technology wish-list. DARPA is requesting for intelligent self-directed radio relay nodes that could set [...]

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