US Navy

QuesTek Innovations LLC

QuesTek Innovations LLC uses their proprietary computational toolset to optimise the design of alloys for cast and wrought manufacturing, as well as for additive manufacturing.

Deep learning technique for trial and error robot skills

Researchers have developed algorithms that enable robots to learn motor tasks through trial and error using a process that more closely approximates the way humans learn, marking a major milestone in the field of artificial intelligence.

Robot ships will be energy independent

IDTechEx reports on electric boats correctly predicted the advent of autonomous electric ships. We even see them becoming energy independent using such things as solar roads as rugged decking and airborne wind energy in the form of tethered drones flying at up to 1000 meters where the winds are consistent and have four times the energy.

Wearable designed to lighten load for marines

Flat, scale-like load sensors are placed within the boot insole to measure the user's weight during activities such as standing, walking and running.

Linking robots to surveillance teams

Researchers are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as they move around and, if necessary, get help in interpreting what they see, enabling them to conduct surveillance as a single entity with many eyes.

Unmanned undersea vehicle completes mine-hunting evaluation

The evaluation represents a significant milestone in the Knifefish program and demonstrates the UUV's capability to detect and classify potential mines, at a variety of depths, each posing a unique threat to naval vessels operating in a mission area.

Robust robotics for a safer world

Robots have come to play important roles in defense and manufacture, but autonomous robots that learn in real time and apply that knowledge in the field remain a work in progress.

First 3D-printed aircraft component takes to skies

Some teams have begun printing parts for race cars. However, the process for an aircraft demands a bit more caution because the plane most likely won't be on the ground if a part fails.

Living sensors at your fingertips

Engineers and biologists have teamed up to design a new "living material" — a tough, stretchy, biocompatible sheet of hydrogel injected with live cells that are genetically programmed to light up in the presence of certain chemicals.

Tricky landing uses fuzzy logic

The buzzword in drone research is autonomous — having the unmanned aerial vehicle do most or all of its own flying.

New metamaterials could improve energy absorption and harvesting

The team is looking forward to leveraging these topological mechanical metamaterials for various applications, optimizing them, and carving devices out of them for applications in soft robotics, prosthetics and energy harvesting.

Tiny DNA walker harvests energy from RNA

Researchers have introduced a new type of "super-resolution" microscopy and used it to discover the precise walking mechanism behind tiny structures made of DNA that could find biomedical and industrial applications.

Transparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish

Engineers have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The bots can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including kicking a ball underwater, and grabbing and releasing a live fish.

Greater speed, accuracy in recognizing brain injury

Modern body armor better protects warfighters against shrapnel from explosive blasts. However, they still face a hidden threat—the resulting blast pressure and shock wave that could cause traumatic brain injury.

US Army flies hoverbike prototype

The Army Research Laboratory and industry partners demonstrated the flying capabilities of a unique rectangular-shaped quadcopter.

Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known

The new configurations have been made in the lab using a high-resolution, multimaterial 3-D printer.

Wearable revolutionizes whale research, makes them partners in science

A sophisticated new type of "tag" on whales that can record data every second for hours, days and weeks at a time provides a view of whale behavior, biology and travels never before possible.

Silatronix

Silatronix is a Wisconsin-based firm that has developed flame-retardant additives for Li-ion batteries based on organosilicon. All major battery makers are testing their compound at the moment.

AquaHarmonics wins wave energy prize

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced AquaHarmonics as the winner of the Wave Energy Prize - which comes with a $1.5 million grand prize.

Researchers say 2D boron may be best for flexible electronics

Though they're touted as ideal for electronics, two-dimensional materials like graphene may be too flat and hard to stretch to serve in flexible, wearable devices. "Wavy" borophene might be better, according to scientists.