Remember the DARPA Grand Challenge? It’s been covered here on The Kneeslider several times when Ghostrider, the riderless motorcycle, was trying to qualify, it involved vehicles traversing a technically challenging course without any human intervention. Sebastian Thrun, who is director of the Stanford AI Lab, led the team that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge [...]
Science frontiers
Metallic glass popped up in the comments following our article about rapid prototyping and I thought I’d look into it since it was new to me and sounded like something quite a few of you would like to know about, too. Things are advancing so fast now, it’s hard to keep up, but this is [...]
We’ve talked about rapid prototyping before, 3D printing of intricate parts from various types of plastic or, in some cases, from metal where the durability of the finished product isn’t an issue. If only they could print production ready parts for manufactured items the potential of the process would be unleashed. Looks like we’re just [...]
The holy grail of battery development is a battery with high capacity plus the ability to discharge and then recharge quickly, or translated into vehicle terms, a battery that holds the energy equivalent of the standard gas tank that you can recharge as quickly as a gas station fill up. Supercapacitors can charge and discharge [...]
