Startups from outside the UK are also contributing. Denmark’s Pliantics will create soft linear actuators, which will serve ...

The bigger questions should be something along the lines of how does DARPA and others working on robotic fighting machines ensure these won’t engage in friendly fire? Or murder innocent civilians?

DARPA has been working on autonomous vehicles for decades, starting in earnest back in 1983 with the Strategic Computing Initiative. And it’s incredible how far the U.S. military has come.

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 ...

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 Army is poised to award a contract this month to produce hundreds of robotic mules to tackle the ... for the privilege of building the mule, after Textron protested to the Government ...

A better way to check and store qubits could enable big applications for smarter drones, better processing, and doing much ...

Three robotic racers completed the 150 mile DARPA Grand Challenge race on Saturday, a huge advance from last year's race, when every competitor failed within sight of the start line. Two more ...

The robotics group whose autonomous VW Touareg, Stanley (pictured), won the DARPA Grand Challenge desert race last year, are building a car that will drive itself at highway speeds from San ...

Below, watch 30-second, pre-race video clips and read profiles of each of a dozen teams that participated in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge ... went into creating robots designed to drive ...