The robot can run at 13 mph of a flat course. The MIT will showcase the robot's new skills at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in California on June 5-6. The Cheetah project is funded by DARPA ...

but today’s autonomous robots have a difficult time operating underground. DARPA wanted to give the state of the art a push forward, so they are running a Subterranean (SubT) Challenge which ...

DARPA has been working on autonomous vehicles for decades, starting in earnest back in 1983 with the Strategic Computing ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and DARPA have developed a robotic payload capable of servicing satellites in orbit. This ...

A maneuverable robot from Japan-based startup GITAI has made the list of technologies chosen for a lunar infrastructure development study from DARPA. DARPA, or Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

The government is looking to build new robots for space missions and it is asking the public for help. DARPA, the research arm of the military, is currently accepting proposals for robot concepts ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting its 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials December 20-21 in Homestead, Fla. Teams will go head-to-head to build the ultimate ...

The book is based on exclusive interviews with 71 people affiliated with DARPA over the years. By Cori Brosnahan Artist’s concept of robots competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Photo ...

Team Chiron, a collaboration between researchers from CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, will compete in the second round of DARPA's Triage Challenge.

Of course that’s not a human contestant, but a humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics. And it’s not actually clinging to the vertical walls as its only support. There are two narrow ...

Video cameras see fast and far—all the way to the horizon. They can measure the texture and color of the ground, helping robots understand where it's safe to drive and alerting them to dangers.

In the passages, Scharre details how, at the end of their training course, the Marines devised a game to test the DARPA robot's intelligence. Eight Marines placed the robot in the center of a ...