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National Defense July 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Polaris Vehicles Adopt Driverless Technology More companies are modifying Polaris' off-the-shelf vehicles and turning them into driverless cars, said a company executive.
National Defense July 2015 Ariel Robinson	Directed Energy Weapons: Will They Ever Be Ready? Despite promising test results and decades of research and development, it could be many more years before the military is ready to bring directed energy weapons into the mainstream.
Chemistry World June 9, 2015 Andy Extance	X-rays capture super-fast nanoscale film By uniting the world's brightest synchrotron x-ray source with photography processes dating from the 19 th century, scientists have tracked photochemically-driven crystal movements in greater detail than ever before.
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	At The DARPA Challenge, May The Best Robot Win The DARPA Robotics Challenge is in the final round of the three-year competition to crown the human/robot team best able to respond to a man-made or natural disaster were under way.
Fast Company Rose Pastore	Are You Ready to Receive Poo Alerts From Your Child's Diaper? Engineers from Acer showed off a small sensor module that sits inside any regular diaper and can detect moisture and methane (a sign of a potential number two).
National Defense July 2015 Allyson Versprille	New Algorithm Tackles Big Data Problems A new imaging algorithm from Lockheed Martin has the ability to root out big data problems, said a company engineer.
National Defense July 2015 Stew Magnuson	Robot Truck Revolution to Benefit Military By now it should be obvious to the Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center that it needs to stop investing in driverless truck convoy technology.
Fast Company Rose Pastore	Carnegie Mellon "In A Crisis" After Uber Poached 40 Of Its Researchers The Wall Street Journal says that the robotics center at Carnegie Mellon is "scrambling to recover" after the ride-hailing company Uber hired 40 of its scientists.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Robo-Mouse: Disney's New Robots Walk Like Cartoon Characters When researchers created a robot that replicates the gait of a cartoon character for the first time, it was no big surprise that Disney was involved.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	We're Doomed: Robots Can Now Learn To Adapt To Injuries A new study published today in Nature explains how robots can use a sort of "evolutionary algorithm" to learn new ways of operating after being injured, according to the MIT Technology Review.
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