Soft robots

“Through our hybrid assembly approach, we were able to 3-D print each of the functional components required within the soft robot body, including the fuel storage, power, and actuation, in a rapid manner,” said Lewis. “The octobot is a simple embodiment designed to demonstrate our integrated design and additive fabrication strategy for embedding autonomous functionality.”

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The first autonomous, entirely soft robot | Harvard Gazette

Public access to scientific data of NASA

The NASA agency provides new services for public access to scientific data.

NASA has developed an agency plan, and associated policy, outlining a framework for activities to increase public access to scientific publications and digital scientific data resulting from NASA-funded research.

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Public Access to Results of NASA-Funded Research | NASA

The Cyber Grand Challenge (DARPA)

This DARPA Cyber show is about impresive computer power and technical skill on different data and communications patterns. CPU vs CPU... but the bugs come from 'human designed' protocols and systems...

The Cyber Grand Challenge featured never-before-seen autonomous systems and highly trained experts, many of whom compete regularly on a global “Capture the Flag” tournament circuit. 

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DARPA | Cyber Grand Challenge
Watch AI hack into AI at DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge