Archive for the ‘military’ category: Page 276
May 31, 2016
The Defense Department Wants Your Ideas For A Military Space Plane
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, space travel
Oh boy.
Got a design concept? You have until July 22 to submit your plan.
By Jennings Brown.
May 30, 2016
Bionic Power — Wearable technology for charging batteries
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: cyborgs, energy, military, transhumanism, wearables
Bionic Power makes wearable technology for charging batteries. Today, we are focused on developing our PowerWalk® Kinetic Energy Harvester for military use and will begin multi-unit field trials with the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps next year. In the future, we see our walk-recharge technology being used in disaster zones and remote worksites, and by consumers in recreational, emergency preparedness and backup applications.
May 29, 2016
U.S. Army using Michigan interstate to test driverless vehicle tech
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: engineering, military, robotics/AI
LAPEER COUNTY, MI – U.S. Army convoys are set to roll down the interstate in Lapeer and St. Clair counties as part of a first-time testing of driverless military vehicle equipment on public roadways in the state.
If successful, officials say the technology that may save the lives of soldiers thousands of miles away.
Representatives from the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center, or TARDEC, and Michigan Department of Transportation met with residents in Imlay City and Capac on May 23 to discuss the testing scheduled for late June along Interstate 69.
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May 29, 2016
Toyota is closing in on a deal to buy Google’s robotics company Boston Dynamics, and the ‘ink is nearly dry’
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: business, military, robotics/AI
One misstep after another for Boston Dynamics. First they get bought by the bunglers at Google, who dont want to do business with the Pentagon, so they buy a company who almost exclusively works for the Pentagon, and now getting sold to a foreign electronics company.
Pretty sad treatment for the company making some of the best robotics in the world. It should be sold to a US defense contractor.
Google is selling off robotics company Boston Dynamics, and Toyota is a serious contender.
May 27, 2016
High-Tech Railgun Promises New Military Advantage
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: military
A powerful new Naval railgun can fire a round that could travel from Washington, DC to Philadelphia in under two minutes. Pentagon officials believe the high-tech cannon could pave the way for a military advantage defending assets on sea and on land. Photo: U.S. Department of Defense.
May 25, 2016
Shipping containers full of capacitors will enable flexible railgun designs for shipboard and fixed or mobile land based railguns
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: energy, military
The US Navy will be taking its futuristic Railgun out of the lab where it has been tested for to past eight years. Over the next two years, railguns will be tested in open firing ranges and eventually at sea, where the futuristic electromagnetic gun will be able to demonstrate its full capacity to fire projectiles at targets 50–100 nautical miles (92 – 185 kilometers) away.
The Navy is evaluating two electromagnetic railgun models. A 32-megajoule prototype built by BAE Systems and the 32 megajoule Blitzer developed by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS). The company has also developed a 3-megajoule railgun variant. In the future, the Navy plans to deploy railguns rated to 64-megajoule.
A railgun can deliver muzzle velocities greater than twice those of conventional guns. Using electromagnetic power, where magnetic fields created by strong electrical currents accelerate a sliding metal conductor between two rails, the railgun achieves muzzle speeds of more than Mach 7.5 without the use of chemical propellant.
May 23, 2016
Military Spider Man-like technology
Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in category: military
Click on photo to start video.
The military just unveiled a device that turns soldiers into Spider-Men.
May 18, 2016
U.S. Navy’s SPAWAR will pay D-Wave $11 million for quantum computer training
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, military, quantum physics, robotics/AI, virtual reality
US Navy paying D-Wave to train them on QC.
A division of the U.S. Navy intends to pay Canadian company D-Wave $11 million to learn how to use its quantum computing infrastructure, according to a federal filing posted online on Monday.
The unit seeking this training is the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, known as SPAWAR or SSC-PAC for short, which is headquartered in San Diego and has previously researched amphibious throwable robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, virtual reality, and many other technologies. The filing does not actually cover the cost of quantum computing hardware. But NASA has been allowing SPAWAR scientists to learn how to use the D-Wave machine that it operates with Google at the NASA Ames Research Center, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported last month.
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May 18, 2016
DARPA Speeds-up Work on ‘Soft Exosuit’ that will Strengthen US Soldiers
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cyborgs, energy, engineering, military, neuroscience, robotics/AI, wearables
Pressure is on DARPA by US Military to speed up on completing the soft Exosuit.
The clothing-like Soft Exosuit has been described as a “Wearable Robot” by the U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) that’s commissioning universities and research institutions to advance this military technology. The DARPA Soft Exosuit is part of the agency’s Warrior Web program.
A prototype Soft Exosuit had a series of webbing straps around the lower half of the body with a low-power microprocessor and a network of flexible strain sensors. These electronics act as the “brain” and “nervous system” of the Soft Exosuit. They continuously monitor data signals, including suit tension, wearer position (walking, running, crouched) and more.
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