Today's funding news includes nail polish, animated farm animals, and unmanned military vehicles.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency asked this question on Twitter: what technology from science fiction would you most like to see as science fact?
Here are some of the most interesting responses, from the I-want-that-too to the wow-are-you-serious to …
Computer vision works much better than it once did, and that could enable a diverse range of machines to see and understand their environments. Such machines could be useful in everything from military scouting to self-driving cars.
That’s why the …
DARPA, the U.S. military’s research arm, is getting ready to issue a call to arms — specifically, humanoid arms on a new kind of robot.
DARPA’s Grand Challenge, a prize competition for technological innovation that could be useful in military …
Positing that data analysis on a grand scale can solve the nation’s most critical challenges, the Obama Administration has kicked off a big data initiative with $200 million in commitments from six federal agencies.
The White House Office of Science …
IBM has been shipping computers for more than 65 years, and it is finally on the verge of creating a true electronic brain.
Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects …
