WORCESTER, Mass. — A vehicle drives toward a disaster site, robot at the wheel. The robot stops the car and then steps out to walk toward the disaster. That’s not scene from the latest sci-fi movie, ...

Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious, Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics, the company behind the widely used robotics ...

Moving quickly to get its Robotics Challenge disaster-response competition off the ground, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) plans to award Boston Dynamics a contract to ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is planning to make things much harder for teams that will compete in the finals of its disaster-response Robotics Challenge, now being planned to ...

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 ...

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.

“Can robots save lives?” This is the question at the heart of the DARPA Robotics Challenge. In DRC 101, we embed with the organizers and engineers pushing robots to perform tasks that might someday ...

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 ...

Science-fiction movies often show robots freely running across the screen, either wreaking havoc or saving the world. Many roboticists competing in the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge earlier ...

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 ...

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.