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 ...

This is the new Terminator built by DARPA to destroy all of humanity. Kidding, kidding. The 6-foot-2-inch 330-pound man-shaped robot was built to rescue humans in a Fukushima-style disaster. Atlas, ...

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Developers of disaster recovery robots gathered in California this weekend to compete for a $2 million prize. Some robots shone. Many got stuck,... At DARPA Challenge, Robots (Slowly) Move Toward ...

When you think of robots, one quality that immediately springs to mind is superhuman strength, and that's something this new bot from iRobot definitely embodies. Developed for the Defense Advanced ...

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 ...

Giving a strong signal that robotics development is heading toward machines that mimic the capabilities of humans and animals, Google has acquired Boston Dynamics, which has built several legged ...

Military researchers pit millimeter-scale robotic against Olympic-style challenges to solve real-world rescue problems. DARPA’s SHort-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms program isn’t just ...

Forget robot wolves and missile-deflecting satellites — those things are already becoming old news. Instead, future wars just might revolve around insect-size spy robots. A recent digest of ...

Three years ago, in the misty Before Times of 2018, DARPA launched its Subterranean (SubT) challenge. Now, the final contenders for the $2M grand prize have converged on a former limestone mine in ...