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From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone

Regina Dugan · TED

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About

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some of the extraordinary projects -- a robotic hummingbird, a prosthetic arm controlled by thought, and, well, the internet -- that her agency has created by not worrying that they might fail. (Followed by a Q&A with TED's Chris Anderson)

The talk

  1. From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone 25 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2012
Speaker
Regina Dugan
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Biology, Medicine and health, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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