by Leroy Hurt | Dec 24, 2013 | Sectors.Military, Sectors.SciTech.Robotics
Via Wall Street Journal: Schaft Inc.’s robot dominated the two-day Pentagon Robotics Challenge Trials this weekend in Florida, where 16 teams competed at the NASCAR race track south of Miami for one of eight slots to secure more federal development funds.…Schaft,...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 24, 2013 | Sectors.Military, Sectors.SciTech.Robotics
Via Wall Street Journal: Schaft Inc.’s robot dominated the two-day Pentagon Robotics Challenge Trials this weekend in Florida, where 16 teams competed at the NASCAR race track south of Miami for one of eight slots to secure more federal development funds.…Schaft,...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2013 | Sectors.Military
Via Business Insider: Kalashnikov [inventor of the AK-47] had mixed feelings about his success. “I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower,” he said on a visit to...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2013 | Sectors.Military
Via Business Insider: Kalashnikov [inventor of the AK-47] had mixed feelings about his success. “I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower,” he said on a visit to...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 13, 2013 | Sectors.Military
Via CSMonitor.com: The Army has, for the first time, used a truck-mounted laser weapon to stop a barrage of 90 incoming mortars and several drones in mid-flight. Defense officials at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command hailed it as a “big step” in the...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 13, 2013 | Sectors.Military
Via CSMonitor.com: The Army has, for the first time, used a truck-mounted laser weapon to stop a barrage of 90 incoming mortars and several drones in mid-flight. Defense officials at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command hailed it as a “big step” in the...
