|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Robots to face off for $2M Pentagon prize
Sep 25 2005 8:54PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Wanted by the Pentagon: A muscular, outdoorsy specimen. Must be intelligent and, above all, self-driven. When 20 hulking robotic vehicles face off next month in a rugged race across the Nevada desert, the winning machine (if any crosses the finish line) will blend the latest technological bling and the most smarts.
|
|
|
Tsunami actually aided crops in Indonesia
Sep 25 2005 11:41AM (CT)
MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) - From atop the coconut tree where he fled to escape the onrushing water, Muhammad Yacob watched the tsunami turn his rice paddy into a briny, debris-strewn swamp.
|
|
|
Professor using high tech to detect IEDs
Sep 25 2005 6:23AM (CT)
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Hardly a day passes without news of U.S. troops being killed or wounded in Iraq, often from car bombs, roadside explosives and similar methods. Halfway around the world, Bill Dunn, a Kansas State University nuclear engineering professor, works on ways to detect such explosives at a safe distance. Since November, he has been applying technology about neutron and gamma ray radiation to detect improvised explosive devices, or IEDs in military jargon.
|
|
|
|
|
|