DARPA recognizes that insect-scale flying robots have immense military potential. I n laboratories around the world, ...

General Electric Company’s technological development division GE Research is creating and refining a soft and smart tunnel-digging robot—inspired by the makeup and movements of earthworms—that could ...

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Pittsburgh-made autonomous vehicles are going underground next week. Carnegie Mellon University’s Team Explorer robots will be competing in the final event at the upcoming DARPA Subterranean Challenge ...

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, ...

United States Marines and representatives from Boston Dynamics look at Spot, a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation, during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

Before athletes from around the world gather for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, 17 robotics teams will compete for glory — and funding — this week in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials.