DARPA’s new MASH program aims to use autonomous robot medics to treat soldiers and save lives on the battlefield.

The US DARPA is sending out a call for companies researching half synthetic, half biological robotics. The goal is to advance ...

We love DARPA’s unsettlingly-lifelike BigDog bot. We love it in spite of the fact that it’s absolutely terrifying in motion. Now it has some bestial competition: the DARPA Cheetah. Ugh. Its legs. Its ...

The Defense Department's emerging tech group backed Phantom Neuro's implantable device that aims to control prosthetic limbs.

When you think of robots, one quality that immediately springs to mind is superhuman strength, and that's something this new bot from iRobot definitely embodies. Developed for the Defense Advanced ...

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The current state of robotics will be put to a serious test this weekend as 17 robots and software teams take their autonomous unmanned systems to Florida for the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

The Pentagon today announced a robot competition, putting out a call for the type of full-service bot that could go into a dangerous emergency situation, perform multiple tasks and complete a mission.

This weekend, Google-acquired Schaft bested 15 others teams competing in a robotics challenge sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), by remotely navigating a sophisticated ...

How to revolutionize the high-tech world? The specialists at the Boston Dynamics American firm have a suitable answer: to design the most perfect robot ever created. Over the past 40 years, the ...