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That’s a wrap for the Cave Circuit Virtual Competition, the third scored event of the #SubTChallenge. Check out some of the highlights from yesterday's event! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZh-eIVu-i4 Full story: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-11-17
Sixteen teams chose their roster of virtual robots and sensor payloads, some based on real-life subterranean robots, and submitted autonomy and mapping algor...
AI’s first wave: expert systems; chess, and taxes. AI’s second wave: statistical learning; image recognition and autonomous driving. AI’s third wave: contextual reasoning; computers with common sense. Learn how DARPA has been advancing AI for 50+ years. https://go.usa.gov/x7kqy
Here are the teams whose robots came out on top in the virtual underground! DARPA #SubTChallenge announces Cave Circuit Virtual Competition winners and $500,000 in prizes. https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-11-17
In just one hour, watch teams compete in the #SubTChallenge Cave Circuit Virtual Competition (2:00PM ET) at www.subtchallenge.com and get inspired to create your own solutions using open source tools such as Robot Operating Systems (ROS) via www.subtchallenge.world
Check out final preparations for broadcast of the #SubTChallenge Virtual Cave Competition that's happening TODAY! Tune in at www.subtchallenge.com this afternoon (2PM EST) for all the action and find out who wins the $500K worth of prizes during the awards ceremony!
Sixteen teams are about to test autonomous robot solutions in DARPA’s SubT Challenge Cave Circuit Virtual Competition. Tune in at www.subtchallenge.com on Tuesday at 2PM ET to see who gets their name on this check!
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In 2013, DARPA chose to support Moderna’s mRNA therapeutics and vaccine development through our ADEPT (Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics) program. In September 2019, in accordance with program goals, the company announced positive Phase 1 safety and efficacy data for mRNA-1944, which encodes for an antibody against chikungunya virus.
The company announced today that their experimental coronavirus vaccine, built in part on this groundbreaking work, is nearly 95 percent effective at preventing COVID infection: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190912005422/en/Moderna-Announces-Positive-Phase-1-Results-for-the-First-Systemic-Messenger-RNA-Therapeutic-Encoding-a-Secreted-Protein-mRNA-1944
Moderna, Inc. announces positive Phase 1 results for the first systemic messenger RNA therapeutic encoding a secreted protein (mRNA-1944).
Get ready to dive into the #SubTChallenge Virtual Cave Worlds next Tuesday 11/17. Watch as 16 teams navigate the virtual environments with natural terrain and dynamic rock falls -- all from the comfort of your home! www.subtchallenge.com
We've selected teams to advance dogfighting algorithms for our ACE program. Five companies will develop AI to handle dogfights involving multiple aircraft. AI will be tested in modeling & sim, sub-scale unmanned aircraft, and full-scale aircraft in 2023: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-11-11
Implementing best practice public health measures on their own among young adults may not be enough to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission and additional actions, such as widespread and repeated testing is recommended to reduce risk of viral spread, according to research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers from @NavalMedicalRC in collaboration with scientists from the @IcahnMountSinai, conducted a study to understand the dynamics of viral transmission and host response to COVID-19 in young adults in order to inform public health measures in response to COVID-19 in a group setting.
The study, COVID-19 Health Action Response for Marines (CHARM), took place at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and included nearly 2,000 participants comprised mostly of 18-20 year-old healthy Marine recruits predominantly from the Eastern U.S. Upon arrival for recruit training, they spent two weeks in a strict, supervised group quarantine that required wearing masks and emphasized hand washing and social distancing as they began their initial military instruction, primarily outdoors: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717?query=TOC
DARPA is broadening its commitment to young scientists, engineers, and mathematicians through a new fellowship program focused on postdoctoral researchers in the field of computer science with grants sized to support each fellow for up to two years: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-11-11a
DARPA is broadening its commitment to young scientists, engineers, and mathematicians through a new fellowship program focused on postdoctoral researchers in the field of computer science with grants sized to support each fellow for up to two years: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-11-11a
Just two years into a four-year program, P3 has performers at AbCellera Biologics, AstraZeneca, Duke University, and Vanderbilt University, all of whom have been able to quickly pivot to rapidly identify antibodies for COVID-19 in less than 90-days. This process traditionally takes several years to complete.
Yesterday, AbCellera announced that a human antibody identified as part of the P3 program and in conjunction with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center (VRC), bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555), had been granted emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients 12 years of age and older with mild to moderate COVID-19. AbCellera was able to obtain a sample of blood at the end of February via an intergovernmental panel, and identified over 1,000 potential antibody candidates. They then began testing how well these antibodies bind to and neutralize the virus to prevent them from entering human cells (photo courtesy of Vanderbilt): https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-11-10
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is of significant concern to the Department of Defense. Of the 337,000 Americans with serious SCIs, approximately 44,000 are veterans, with 11,000 new injuries occurring each year. SCI is a complex condition – the injured often face lifelong paralysis and increased long-term morbidity due to factors such as sepsis and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. While considerable research efforts have been devoted toward restorative and therapeutic technologies to SCIs, significant challenges remain.
DARPA’s Bridging the Gap Plus (BG+) program aims to develop new approaches to treating SCI by integrating injury stabilization, regenerative therapy, and functional restoration. Today, DARPA announced the award of contracts to the University of California-Davis, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Pittsburgh to advance this crucial work. Multidisciplinary teams at each of these universities are tasked with developing systems of implantable, adaptive devices that aim to reduce injury effects during early phases of SCI, and potentially restore function during the later chronic phase.
Learn more about DARPA’s BG+ program at: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-11-09
While you wait for the upcoming Cave Circuit Virtual Competition Showcase and Awards Ceremony on Nov 17, learn about the teams who are competing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6wMum5UsYvY5-XP_uIZiHjxwZJaiIYmj
In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, Tom Rondeau, a program manager since 2016, takes listeners on a tour of his efforts to usher wireless technology into a new era. Anchored in an emerging technology arena known as software-defined radio (SDR), his programs dive deeply into the pathbreaking hardware, software, computational techniques, power efficiencies, and innovation communities that it will take to do more with the electromagnetic spectrum than ever before. Think of every cellphone call ever made, of satellite communication, and now of billions of devices communicating wirelessly via apps and the internet. And now think beyond all of that. The tattoos of Maxwell’s Equations — which famously capture the behavior of electromagnetic waves as discerned by the 19th century physicist James Clerk Maxwell — on Tom’s forearms reveal just how devoted he is to his technology-development mission. “I look down at those every day and have a moment of awe about what we have been able to do,” he tells listeners. And then he has another moment of awe as he imagines how much more he might be able to pull off as a DARPA program manager. https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/podcast
ICYMI: Read about DARPA's Make-It performers @CroninLab, @SRI_Intl who are speeding up the discovery and production of molecules by digitizing chemical synthesis with advanced automated synthesis platforms: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/24/how-a-digital-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-drug-industry.html
At the Cronin Lab at the University of Glasgow chemists developed a robotic chemist called a "chemputer" that turns words into molecules.
DARPA is proud to work with "Virus Hunters" at ARS/@USDA as part of our PREEMPT program. Featured in an eponymous NatGeo documentary this week, Drs. Amy Vincent and Phillip Gauger, are working to identify – and prevent – the next global pandemic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/virus-hunters]
Watch full episodes of Virus Hunters online. Get sneak peeks and free episodes all on Nat Geo TV.
Teams that qualified for the #SubTChallenge Cave Circuit Virtual Competition recently submitted their algorithms for autonomously navigating and searching underground cave environments. Tune in on Nov 17 at 2pm EST to watch them perform and see who wins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMiLLx8Y0Y&feature=youtu.be
The DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge aims to develop innovative technologies that would augment operations underground. The SubT Challenge explores new ap...
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” In other words, just as yesterday's fundamental research investments made possible today's technologies, today's investments will redefine what's possible in the years to come: https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/advancing-national-security-through-fundamental-research
DARPA’s SIGMA+ program recently conducted a deployment of advanced chemical and biological sensing systems in the Indianapolis area, collecting more than 250 hours of atmospheric data, which will help train algorithms to more accurately detect threats: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-10-21
One of the core processes of development biology involves establishing positions of various cells within a tissue, called morphogenesis. DARPA BETR performers at @UCSF recently demonstrated in @ScienceMagazine that synthetic green fluorescent protein (GFP) signals can be substituted for a natural morphogen to organize patterning.
The BETR program aims to provide medical interventions with the necessary sophistication to more quickly restore complex human tissues after injury. The effort notably focuses on injuries relevant to the warfighter such as blast and burn damage to bone, skin, and nerves. If the program succeeds, warfighters could return to duty sooner and more fully healed: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6514/327
In the latest Voices from DARPA episode, meet program manager Stacie Williams and learn how her childhood love for the light fantastique of fireflies expresses itself at DARPA in R&D programs that could transform telescope technology: https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/podcast
DARPA program manager Stacie Williams is shepherding R&D that could lead to do a major shrink job on complex, expensive and massive orbiting telescopes. Listen to what she is up to in the latest Voices from DARPA podcast episode: https://youtu.be/RYlPFCFfhTA
A consortium of Panacea performers led by @QBI_UCSF published a study in @ScienceMagazine today on SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2, and MERS-CoV, noting identification of shared vulnerabilities & potential drug targets for a first-of-of its kind pan-viral therapy: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/10/14/science.abe9403.full
DARPA has awarded seven contracts for work on the NOMARS program, which seeks to maximize seaframe performance when human constraints are removed and achieve vessel maintenance and logistics functionality for long endurance operations: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-10-13
DARPA was honored to host this week Congressman @MacThornberry, Ranking Member on the House Armed Services Cmte. Thornberry, seen here with DARPA director Dr. Victoria Coleman, met with researchers to discuss COVID-19 response efforts and microelectronics, among other topics.
DARPA’s RACER project plans to create smarter #AI algorithms in #self-driving combat vehicles, allowing them to navigate off-road with human-like ability: http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-10-07
DARPA would like to congratulate Safe Genes PI Jennifer Doudna & her team for being awarded the 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry! Their pioneering work on #CRISPR is contributing to novel cancer therapies, and holds promise for curing inherited diseases: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/summary/
DARPA's 2021 Young Faculty Award (YFA) research announcement is now available. Learn more about the YFA program, eligibility, and the topic areas where DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals: https://go.usa.gov/xGMax
As part of the Living Foundries: 1000 Molecules Program, DARPA-funded researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) and biotechnology company Amyris have developed and tested a high-density, low-cost biosynthetic missile fuel: https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/NAWCWD-Amyris-collaborate-develop-test-high-energy-biosynthetic-fuel/Mon-10052020-1256
Are you a novel hard-tech scientist and entrepreneur in need of lab space and top-notch mentors? Applications for the @activatefellows program are now open! @DARPA is a proud partner for discovery of next generation #microsystems and #microelectronics. Tune in 10/6 to learn more.
https://www.activate.org/apply
Already think you’ll be applying? Pre-apply now if you want to join specialized workshops on how to prepare for the application process, get introductions to fellows, and insights on how to connect with potential technical collaborators.
DARPA's FETT Bug Bounty is in its final week, but there is still time to participate before the Oct. 6 close. To date, more than 500 hackers have spent in excess of 10k hours searching for exploits. Learn more at: https://fett.darpa.mil/
Missed our August update on the DARPA-funded team at Cambridge University developing electronic biosensors to detect coronavirus with high sensitivity? Their research was just highlighted on BBC [Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__jQtojk4kk
Amazing work to find new drugs to fight Covid...by using microchips. Featuring Dr Anna-Maria Pappa, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge Walther Traberg-...
Congratulations to the 17 Virtual Competition teams that qualified for the #SubTChallenge Cave Circuit! Save the date to see teams' robots conquer diverse cave worlds on 17 NOV on the Showcase & Awards Ceremony stream: http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-09-28a
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In just one hour, watch teams compete in the #SubTChallenge Cave Circuit Virtual Competition (2:00PM ET) at www.subtchallenge.com and get inspired to create your own solutions using open source tools such as Robot Operating Systems (ROS) via www.subtchallenge.world
Check out final preparations for broadcast of the #SubTChallenge Virtual Cave Competition that's happening TODAY! Tune in at www.subtchallenge.com this afternoon (2PM EST) for all the action and find out who wins the $500K worth of prizes during the awards ceremony!
Get ready to dive into the #SubTChallenge Virtual Cave Worlds next Tuesday 11/17. Watch as 16 teams navigate the virtual environments with natural terrain and dynamic rock falls -- all from the comfort of your home! www.subtchallenge.com
As part of the Living Foundries: 1000 Molecules Program, DARPA-funded researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) and biotechnology company Amyris have developed and tested a high-density, low-cost biosynthetic missile fuel: https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/NAWCWD-Amyris-collaborate-develop-test-high-energy-biosynthetic-fuel/Mon-10052020-1256
DARPA is investing in next-gen simulation with @OpenRoboticsOrg developing the cloud-hosted #opensource sim environment for testing autonomy in #SubTChallenge underground worlds.
Join us for the third-annual ERI Summit & MTO Symposium August 18-20. This year’s virtual event will highlight recent milestones achieved under our $1.5B investment in advancing microelectronics, as well as the technology transitions that stand to dramatically improve commercial and defense outcomes. Registration closes Monday, July 27 or when capacity has been reached, so don’t delay!
Calling all roboticists! New teams can still join the #SubTChallenge Virtual Competition for the Cave Circuit and beyond. Learn how to compete: https://subtchallenge.world/how-to-compete
Build your own virtual underground world with the #SubTChallenge. The feature is open for all to explore in advance of the Cave Circuit. Watch out for falling rocks! https://github.com/osrf/subt/wiki/World-Creation-Tutorial
Announcing DARPA’s first-ever bug bounty program: Finding Exploits to Thwart Tampering (FETT). Working w @synack and @DefenseDigital, hackers can test hardware from our SSITH program. To participate in the 6/15-6/29 capture-the-flag qualifier, go to: https://go.synack.com/darpa-ctf-registration-page.html
New content is up to prepare for the #SubTChallenge Virtual Cave Circuit, including new practice worlds and robot model capabilities. Learn more: https://subtchallenge.world
Nine teams were selected for our Gamebreaker AI effort, which seeks to apply AI to existing open-world video games to assess and affect game balance. If successful, the AI could be used in DoD simulated wargames to create imbalance over an adversary. http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-05-13
Take a first look into the #SubTChallenge Virtual Cave Worlds! See how the third circuit differs from Tunnel and Urban environments, including branching layouts, vertical shafts, and rocky obstacles--all without leaving the house.
Here we go! Up next, the final runs of the #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit with CoSTAR and Explorer. If you’ve been watching the livestream throughout the event, you’ll notice new views as we’ve added more cameras to the mix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgPirHYszzw
CERBERUS and CTU-CRAS-NORLAB rolled onto the #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit livestream earlier this hour to begin their final runs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgPirHYszzw
On the livestream now in the #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit: CSIRO Data61 and MARBLE. We caught up with them as they were setting up for their final runs. Join the current runs in progress on SubTv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgPirHYszzw
Join the livestream now for the final runs in Round 2 Day 2 of the #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit. Closing out the day, we have CoSTAR on Alpha Course and Explorer on Beta Course. https://youtu.be/A8dgvJGnHsQ
Verticality is a major component of the #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit. It's been a hurdle for robots since a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. On R2D2 (Round 2 Day 2) of competition, check out how teams will tackle it on the SubTv stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_c7P1TJKM4
The next set of runs has begun at #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit. Coordinated Robotics and NCTU are on the courses. Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_c7P1TJKM4
We’re back with the livestream shortly. We found Coordinated Robotics hanging out in the SubT lounge prerun, going over "game tape" of previous runs. Catch them on Alpha Course and NCTU on Beta Course 12p PT/3p ET: https://youtu.be/A8dgvJGnHsQ
Robotika and NUS SEDS readying for their final runs in the #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit. Follow along on the livestream for Round 2 Day 2 (or R2D2, as we’re calling it): https://youtu.be/A8dgvJGnHsQ
And the final #SubT Challenge Urban Circuit runs of the day are about to begin with teams MARBLE and CSIRO Data61. Follow along on SubTv to catch the action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dgvJGnHsQ
The first Round 2 #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit runs of the day are complete with NUS SEDS and Robotika. Up next: NCTU and Coordinated Robotics. Keep up with the action on SubTv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dgvJGnHsQ
Rolling in to Round 2 of the #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit! First up on the courses: NUS SEDS and Robotika. You can watch the action on SubTv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dgvJGnHsQ Reminder: we are on a 1-hr delay for competition integrity.
Rolling in to Round 2 of the #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit! First up on the courses: NUS SEDS and Robotika. You can watch the action on SubTv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dgvJGnHsQ Reminder: we are on a 1-hr delay for competition integrity.
Prepping for the final runs of the day, which are the first #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit runs for teams CoSTAR and Explorer. Catch the action on SubTv: https://youtu.be/4hdeFdt0woc
On the course now in the #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit livestream, NCTU and Robotika. Follow along on SubTv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hdeFdt0woc
First #SubtChallenge Urban Circuit runs of the day are complete with Coordinated Robotics and NUS SEDS. Up next: NCTU and Robotika. Keep up with the livestream on SubTv. https://youtu.be/4hdeFdt0woc
Teams reflect on their performance in Round 1 Day 1 and prep for Day 2 of the #SubTChallenge Urban Circuit. SubTv will be back Friday just before 10am PT/1pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/user/DARPAtv.
Good luck to #SubTChallenge Virtual Urban Circuit teams as competition is open thru Jan. 30! Qualified competitors submit solutions via the SubT Virtual Portal during the competition window. BARCS and Robotika are the current top scorers; winners announced late Feb.
Good luck to AlphaDogfight Trials teams at Trial 2 next week at @JHUAPL! Final Trial is scheduled for April in Las Vegas @AFWERX & will include top AI against a fighter pilot in a simulator. Check out this recap video from Trial 1 @JHUAPLin November:
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