Yesterday, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new contest: create a humanoid robot that can navigate a world made for humans. We take a look at five of them and ...

The Pentagon today announced a robot competition, putting out a call for the type of full-service bot that could go into a dangerous emergency situation, perform multiple tasks and complete a mission.

The architect of the DARPA Robotics Challenge explains how their brains have caught up ...

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 ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has chosen the 36 semi-finalists that will compete in a qualification event this October as a final prelude to the Urban Challenge robot race on ...

This weekend, Google-acquired Schaft bested 15 others teams competing in a robotics challenge sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), by remotely navigating a sophisticated ...

PETMAN looks like the Terminator but if it ever went rogue, escaping it would be as easy as walking up a set of stairs. No longer, kids; Boston Dynamics has released new footage of one its creations ...

A modified Boston Dynamics Spot robot operates in an experimental mine in Colorado in preparation for the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. (Photo: Michelle Wiese) CU Boulder College of Engineering and ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, is sponsoring the race, hoping that it will yield some spiffy ...