DARPA's tiny robot Olympics tests millimeter-scale machines in disaster response challenges, with untethered bots jumping, lifting, and navigating rubble.

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, ...

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 ...

Teams using robots developed by companies now owned by Google took five of the top eight places in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (Darpa) Robotics Challenge trails, staged in ...

Science-fiction movies often show robots freely running across the screen, either wreaking havoc or saving the world. Many roboticists competing in the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge earlier ...

Teams have been selected to compete in a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) challenge to demonstrate a robot that can help humans respond to disasters. Under the Darpa Robotics ...

The world of robotics has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. From towering humanoids to nimble drones, robotics technology ...

One animal-inspired micro robot is the RoboBee, a device weighing less than a tenth of a gram, developed at Harvard’s Wyss ...

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 ...

Led by NASA JPL, Team CoSTAR will participate in the SubT final this week to demonstrate multi-robot autonomy in a series of tests in extreme environments. Eight teams featuring dozens of robots from ...