This summer, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the Pentagon, is hosting a challenge that seeks to address the limitations of the human response to natural and ...

One of the hardest tasks for robots in the 2013 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge Trials was driving. During the DRC Finals in June, the 25 competing robots and ...

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Someone at DARPA’s crying over the brilliant “Find these ten red weather balloons and we’ll give you 40K” challenge he concocted ending mere nine hours in. It’s what happens when you forget about MIT ...

Competitors will be expected to build a 55-pound drone (or lighter) capable of carrying four times its weight — 220 pounds or more —then fly that weight across a five-nautical-mile course outside the ...

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 ...