Robot Race on PBS last night the entire enterprise has taken on a whole new dynamic thanks to the excellent backstory provided by the program that reaches all the way back to the first DARPA Grand ...

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.

DARPA announced yesterday that by the mid-point of the semifinal event a total of 22 robot racers out of the field of 43 had successfully completed the obstacle course. The final semifinal run is ...

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 ...

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 ...