DARPA is working on how to shrink mini robots into a size smaller than a human fingertip. CBS News
CBS: DARPA helped create the internet, Siri and drones. Here's what they're working on now
Today, American soldiers must be inches away to identify a chemical warfare agent or a homemade bomb. By next year, they'll be able to do that from as far as 100 feet away.
The development is part of Ed Dottery's mission to help keep our soldiers safe, and it's backed by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, also known as DARPA.
From drones to digital assistants, a wide variety of tech innovations have one thing in common: they originated at DARPA, the agency tasked with seeing the future and making it real, reports CBS News' Kylie Atwood.
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WNU Editor: China and Russia have created their own "DARPAs", a clear sign on how important technological innovation and discovery is to their military programs.
