The Schaft robot, made by Shaft Inc of Japan -- which is now one of Google's primary robotics research labs -- is one of around 10 robots that were entered into DARPA's Robotic Challenge (DRC).

Earlier this week, 23 robots from all over the world competed in Pomona, Calif., for a $2 million prize in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

The DARPA Robotics Challenge was designed to catalyze the robotics community to develop advanced robots that can assist humans in mitigating and recovering from future natural and man-made disasters.

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 ...

One goal of the challenge is to see if robots could be capable of defusing such a situation, said Dr. Gill Pratt, DARPA's Robotics Challenge program manager.

The DARPA Robotics Challenge is getting harder -- much harder -- and as a result it's pushing its robotic contestants into exciting new territory.

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 ...

Google's self-driving cars emerged from the DARPA Grand Challenge. Amazon's picking robots were inspired by a similar competition a decade ago.

“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 ...

Image: DARPA The R&D arm of the US Department of Defense has unveiled the latest version of its humanoid robot. The new robot, dubbed 'Atlas Unplugged', runs entirely on batteries, is controlled ...

DARPA Contest Lets Robots Compete to Save Humanity from Itself This weekend, Google-acquired Schaft bested 15 others teams competing in a robotics simulated rescue challenge. By Danielle Wiener ...