Engineers at the Pentagon have cooked up quite a beast. A DARPA robot tank is a self-driving vehicle that has been engineered as part of DARPA's RACER (Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments ...

The U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency, commonly known as DARPA, awarded $1 million for the crowdsourced design of a new "mobility and drivetrain subsystem" for a next ...

But DARPA did not invent GPS. But it gets a little bit of credit there. iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner, basically exists today, and its underlying technology ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting its 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials December 20-21 in Homestead, Fla. Teams will go head-to-head to build the ultimate ...

A British R&D unit that’s been compared to DARPA is funding synthetic muscles, electronic skin, and mechanical hands for a robotics dexterity project. The Advanced Research and Invention Agency ...

It was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The payload, which resembles two huge robotic arms ... regularly fixes aircraft, tanks, ships, and trucks that break.

Geoffrey Peyton has spent the past two years designing robots for Boston Dynamics through a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. His main project is the “Cheetah,” a ...