{"id":75037,"date":"2018-01-07T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/pentagon-seeks-laser-powered-bat-drones-really"},"modified":"2018-01-11T17:04:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:04:52","slug":"pentagon-seeks-laser-powered-bat-drones-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/pentagon-seeks-laser-powered-bat-drones-really","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Seeks Laser-Powered Bat Drones. Really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OfwX6X4Nx20?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wirelessly powered, biomimetic spybots\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new contest seeks flight systems inspired by Mother Nature and powered by directed-energy beams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tired: multi-rotor copters and fixed-wing <\/strong>drones. Wired: flying robots that move like living animals, are crafted of next-generation materials, and draw their power not from batteries but energy beamed from nearby aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Defense Enterprise Science Initiative, or DESI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Releases\/News-Release-View\/Article\/1407566\/dod-announces-defense-enterprise-science-initiative-to-support-university-indus\/source\/GovDelivery\/\">announced<\/a> a competition for basic science <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grants.gov\/web\/grants\/view-opportunity.html?oppId=299112\">grants<\/a> to build \u201cnew paradigms for autonomous flight, with a focus on highly-maneuverable platforms and algorithms for flight control and decision making.\u201d An accompanying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grants.gov\/web\/grants\/view-opportunity.html?oppId=299112&source=GovDelivery\">Broad Agency Announcement<\/a> gets more specific: basically, they\u2019re looking for bat-like drones that can be powered with directed-energy beams.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/01\/pentagon-seeks-laser-powered-bat-drones\/144964\/?oref=d-topstory\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/01\/pentagon-seeks-...d-topstory<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wirelessly powered, biomimetic spybots\u2026 A new contest seeks flight systems inspired by Mother Nature and powered by directed-energy beams. Tired: multi-rotor copters and fixed-wing drones. Wired: flying robots that move like living animals, are crafted of next-generation materials, and draw their power not from batteries but energy beamed from nearby aircraft. On Wednesday, the Defense [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,41,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-information-science","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75083,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75037\/revisions\/75083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}