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WORCESTER, Mass. — A vehicle drives toward a disaster site, robot at the wheel. The robot stops the car and then steps out to walk toward the disaster. That’s not scene from the latest sci-fi movie, ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is planning to make things much harder for teams that will compete in the finals of its disaster-response Robotics Challenge, now being planned to ...

Moving quickly to get its Robotics Challenge disaster-response competition off the ground, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) plans to award Boston Dynamics a contract to ...

Lift Challenge offers $6.5 million in prizes to teams that can achieve a payload-to-weight ratio greater than 1:1.

A 10-school collaboration led by Drexel University is one of several groups worldwide who are working to advance robotics technology for disaster relief as part of a challenge laid down by the U.S.

DARPA's Robotic Challenge took place in Florida over the weekend, pitting some of the world's most advanced humanoid robots against each other in a series of complex tasks, and rather fortuitously for ...

Keep in mind that the robot design entries were all aimed at helping DARPA to realize its dream of independent, autonomous, untethered robots that can rescue humans in post-disaster scenarios. The ...

“Can robots save lives?” This is the question at the heart of the DARPA Robotics Challenge. In DRC 101, we embed with the organizers and engineers pushing robots to perform tasks that might someday ...

DARPA has locked in the list of teams for its Robotics Challenge Finals, noting that the last test will be much tougher than those that came before. The finals, which pit teams of robots and their ...

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 ...