The DARPA Finals will be held in Pomona, California from June 5-6, and the robots that come out of it could make some big impacts (or take over the world). Here's a summary of what you should know.

The DARPA Subterranean Challenge was designed to help plug an apparent gap in the ability of robots and autonomous systems to navigate underground environments.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U.S. Department of Defense charged with developing new technologies for the military, recently upgraded its Atlas robot in ...

Can a scrappy team of robotics undergrads play to win against the best-funded labs in the world? At the Darpa Challenge, it’s anyone’s game.

Using legged robots, a wheeled communications vehicle, one advanced autonomous exploration aerial robot and one collision-tolerant aerial robot, Team CERBERUS, an international collaboration based in ...

The DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials are being held Friday and Saturday (Dec. 20–21) at the Homestead Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla. The contest, which features teams from five different ...

Warner, the WPI robot, has been taking driving lessons -- one of a number of challenges he'll need to compete in the DARPA robotics challenge finals next year.

Robots might be finding their footing above ground, but today’s autonomous robots have a difficult time operating underground. DARPA wanted to give the state of the art a push forward, so the… ...

Will DARPA’s Disaster Robots Ever Go to War? Never Say Never In the latest Grand Challenge, semi-autonomous machines pushed the state of the art for humanoid robots.

The DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials begin today, putting 17 humanoid robots through their own version of an octathalon.

The DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials is being held this week in Florida. The competition will test robot designs from 17 different teams.

A two-legged robot built by engineers at SCHAFT Inc., a Japanese robotics firm, won the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials today (Dec. 21), scoring the most points across tasks that tested the robots ...