Paralyzed from the waist down after a BMX accident, Steven Sanchez rolled into Suit”s Berkeley, California, office in a wheelchair. A half-hour later he was standing and walking thanks to the Phoenix”a robotic exoskeleton now available for around $40,000. The suit returns movement to wearers” hips and knees with small motors attached to standard orthotics.
New Stanford University developed battery shuts down at high temperatures and restarts when it cools. Stanford researchers have developed the first lithium-ion battery that shuts down before overheating, then restarts immediately when the temperature cools. The new technology could prevent the kind of fires that have prompted recalls and bans on a wide range of
Make sure to check out the video, “Speaking of the Future: Advanced Manufacturing” to see what an additive manufacturing factory of the future might look like. Aerospace manufacturers need to design for extreme environmental conditions – using ruggedized parts that can withstand the high temperatures of a jet engine or speeds in excess of 1,000
No matter how many regulations are put in place, drones are cheap enough now that frequent misuse is becoming the norm. There”s no good way of dealing with a dangerous drone: you can jam its radios to force it to autoland, or maybe try using an even bigger drone to capture it inside a giant
WASHINGTON – The US Air Force is looking at early termination of a controversial arrangement the service holds with United Launch Alliance (ULA) after the company pulled out of a Pentagon space launch competition last year. ULA, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, in November pulled out of the Air Force”s GPS III
WASHINGTON: In the brutal naval battles of the future, the first clash of arms will be a clash of electrons. If you don’t win the invisible battle of the airwaves, you can’t win the visible battle of missiles. Before warships can concentrate their fire on the enemy, they first must communicate with each other. Before
Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “There are ethical implications. There are implications that I call the ‘Terminator conundrum’.” With the Obama administration giving the green light for driverless cars on our roads within the next decade, and the military services developing autonomous air, ground and sea
It”s no secret that the military is beginning to take seriously the threat that commercial unmanned aerial systems pose to personnel and military interests. One area of concern, for example, is that the proliferation of inexpensive drones could produce expendable one-way flying bombs. But while aerial drones get most of the attention, they are only
The Defense Department’s program to develop the next generation of rotary wing aircraft will do away with categories based on weight and will instead break them down into capabilities, a senior leader in the program said Jan. 21. Jose Gonzalez, deputy director of land warfare, munitions and tactical warfare systems under acquisition, technology and logistics
U.S. special operations forces are exceptionally tight-lipped about their duty assignments. But they are becoming increasingly forthright about their interest in innovative technology. Taking a page from the Silicon Valley business playbook, the U.S. Special Operations Command has opened up its own technology incubator in Ybor City, a historic Tampa, Florida, neighborhood not far from