ORO GRANDE, Calif.–Carnegie Mellon University and its robotics guru, Red Whittaker, have been vindicated. On Sunday, CMU’s Tartan Racing took home $2 million for first place in DARPA's Urban Challenge ...

Oregon State University's Atrias, a robot designed to enter disastger zones, is getting in shape to make its debut at the Darpa Robotics Challenge in June. Unlike other bipedal robots, Assume the ...

Military researchers pit millimeter-scale robotic against Olympic-style challenges to solve real-world rescue problems. DARPA’s SHort-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms program isn’t just ...

Twenty-five human-robot teams from seven countries will compete for $3.5 million in prizes June 5-6 during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s robotics finals in California, DARPA program ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Airmen with the 155th Security Forces Squadron provide security over a casualty following a simulated drone attack at the Nebraska ...

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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 ...

The Department of Defense's research arm has already funded the design of a cheetah-like robot that broke the land speed record, and a more humanoid machine to safely test military combat gear. Now ...

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 ...