You’d expect a $53,700 backpack laser to be some DARPA super weapon that’s stuck in a perpetual “five years away” as more and more cable specials are produced on the matter. But actually, the backpack ...

Within a year or two, the U.S. military could field a portable, laser backpack device that will provide a three-dimensional (3-D) map of buildings. The reconnoitering pack could be used by ...

There are many jobs in the United States Army that are dangerous — it's the military, after all. Still, there are a few jobs or tasks that are considerably more dangerous than others. In the Navy, ...

It can make video games more realistic and buildings more energy efficient. They are driving to discover a model of the whole world. "Here's a model of two floors of Corey Hall," says Professor Zakhor ...

NASA and partners are developing backpack-sized technology for future Moon explorers that will allow them to map and navigate the lunar surface in the darkness of the high polar regions to within a ...

Someday soon, I’m sure DARPA’s BigDog will mate with a salamander robot and produce some artificial intelligence that either enslaves the human race or is really, really needy. Until such a time, ...

Currently, if people wish to obtain a 3D model of an indoor environment, they have to send in a laser-scanning robot or cart that painstakingly makes its way through in a stop-and-start fashion.

A portable, laser backpack for 3-D mapping is being hailed as a breakthrough technology capable of producing fast, automatic and realistic 3-D mapping of difficult interior environments. A portable, ...

European laser cleaning specialist has received its first orders for a ready-to-wear fiber laser system. German firm Clean Laser System has launched what it claims is the first backpack mounted fiber ...

The Germans have invented what is supposedly the world’s first backpack-mounted laser cleaner. Clearly there was a need for such high-powered cleaners. There’s no real explanation of how the laser ...

via KGO-TV The back-to-school season is upon us, and what better way to go back to school in style than with a laser-equipped backpack capable of building 3D maps of building interiors? Researchers at ...