DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that’s responsible for developing emerging technologies for the U.S. military, is building a new high-tech spacecraft — and it’s armed. In an age ...

What if we could grow houses and other structures to suit specific purposes, using local resources? And what if those buildings were capable of self-healing after damage? How would we do that? Those ...

DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control. The award is Phase 3 of ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will start a detailed design phase of its Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, according to a press release. A ...

Nowadays, drones are found nearly everywhere: Farms, fields, even underwater. They could soon be found on the decks of a new kind of aircraft carrier combing the vast oceans for valuable intel. The US ...

Teams of small autonomous quadcopters, in coordination with groups of small wheeled ground vehicles, swarmed building in a tactics test at Fort Benning, Georgia in June. The unmanned air vehicles (UAV ...

DARPA next month will talk about a proposed consortium of industry players that will research, develop, and publish standards for safe commercial robotic servicing operations in Earth’s orbit.