Humanoid Robots Are Coming of Age
Eight years ago, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform a series…
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Parsons’ Unleashing The Future Of Military Cyber Infrastructure Company Wins DARPA…
CENTREVILLE, Va., Jan. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Parsons Corporation (NYSE: PSN) announced today that the company’s BlackHorse Solutions subsidiary won a $12 million contract from the…
Rigetti Awarded DARPA Contract for Quantum Application Benchmarking
BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A subsidiary of Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI) (“Rigetti” or the “Company”), a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing, has…
The US Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse
On May 10, two fighter pilots performed a high-altitude proto-metaverse experiment. A few thousand feet above the desert of California, in a pair of Berkut 540 jets, they donned custom AR…
Here Come the Underdogs of the Robot Olympics
Cornelius, a hog-sized robot with fat rubber tank treads, has come to a stop in a small, verdant courtyard on the Spanish revival campus of California State University, Channel Islands.“It’s…