With its Subterranean Challenge, DARPA wants machines that could help with search and rescue or military scenarios.

Previously we've seen AlphaDog, Darpa's four-legged, autonomous robot wander the woods and play fetch. Now the Pentagon's robo-beast, designed to haul supplies in rough terrain, has become smart ...

The last time we saw AlphaDog, Darpa's newest four-legged robot, the big lug was flailing around in the lab. Now, however, AlphaDog's been let off his leash.

For those that may be unfamiliar with Boston Dynamics’s robotic Rover, the DARPA-funded robot was designed to lift – er, carry – the burden of soldiers by effectively slugging around their ...

Trash Gobbling Robots Cleaning Lake Tahoe and Beyond! Science DARPA's Alpha Dog robot evolves The Legged Squad Support System (LS3) can now follow spoken orders and navigate in the dark.

For those that may be unfamiliar with Boston Dynamics’s robotic Rover, the DARPA-funded robot was designed to lift – er, carry – the burden of soldiers by effectively slugging around their ...

DARPA and Boston Dynamics are developing the four-legged robot to go anywhere troops can go on foot, while carrying up to 400 pounds of gear for them.

The LS3 robot, more popularly known by its earliest nickname, BigDog, is being retired. Despite hopes that it would one day work as a pack mule for US soldiers in the field, this dog had too much ...

DARPA-funded LittleDog robot shows off new tricks LittleDog is a four-legged robot designed to learn how to negotiate and traverse unknown rugged and complex terrains.

Since 2006, Boston Dynamics has been solidly plugging away at the concept of an all-terrain pack mule at the behest of DARPA, the US military's research wing. Then, in 2010, the company was ...

And now DARPA has selected six university research teams, including ones at MIT and Stanford, to compete to develop the best algorithms for controlling the robot pup.