Podcast Episodes

Episode 69: Demystifying Deepfakes

Generative artificial intelligence has captured the world’s attention after recent advances in the commercial sector. Its ability to create deepfakes, or highly realistic multimedia, has turned a onc…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Episode 68: Space Manufacturing

Imagine you are going to space. There is a long list of items and supplies you definitely will need, but there is an even longer list of things you might need, depending on how your mission progresse…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Episode 67: Wireless Power Beaming

This episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast series explores the possibility of an “energy web” that, much like the World Wide Web easily and quickly spreads information, could instantly distribute …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Episode 66: How to Create AI Tech We Can Trust

At a time when the race to create the best artificial intelligence-enabled technology is at its fiercest, experts at DARPA say we need to recalibrate the direction of research in the field.

Within DAR…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Episode 65: A Sprint to Tomorrow, Powered by Teamwork

If it seems like microchips have been a consistent conversation topic lately, it’s for good reason. Supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors created a new level of a…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Episode 64: DARPA Triage Challenge

For this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we will be hearing from CDR Jean-Paul Chretien about the newly-launched DARPA Triage Challenge. Previous DARPA challenges have contributed to the se…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Episode 63: So Many Maps, So Little Time: Using AI to Locate Critical Minerals

In this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we talk with DARPA program manager Dr. Joshua Elliott, and Dr. Graham Lederer, research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey about a recent DARPA …

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Episode 62: The Model (& Simulation) Researcher

For this episode of the Voices from DARPA podcast, we talk with new DARPA program manager, Dr. Alvaro Velasquez, a self-described “researcher at heart.” His current research interests are at the inte…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Episode 61: Manta Ray - Unleashing Robotic Undersea Endurance

DARPA’s Manta Ray program seeks to demonstrate innovative technologies allowing payload-capable autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to operate on long-duration, long-range missions in ocea…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Episode 61: Manta Ray - Unleashing Robotic Undersea Endurance

DARPA’s Manta Ray program seeks to demonstrate innovative technologies allowing payload-capable autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to operate on long-duration, long-range missions in ocea…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago