An curved arrow pointing right. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — DARPA — will be holding the final round of its robotics competition over the weekend of June 6th in California.

Atlas, developed by Boston Dynamics, is renowned for its athleticism, often showcased through its impressive dance moves and backflips. This robot was initially created as a research project for the U ...

This is to be a simplified version of the atlas, as compared to the robots sent off to competitors in the DARPA robotics challenge. Arms have been replaced with weights. It appears that this ...

This robot was initially created as a research project for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2009. In a significant development, the hydraulic Atlas (HD Atlas ...

And the big one: is it moral to use robots to kill other humans in a war? At the same site in Texas, back sometime in late 2023, DARPA ran other AVs through the off-road course. It shared onboard ...

but today’s autonomous robots have a difficult time operating underground. DARPA wanted to give the state of the art a push forward, so they are running a Subterranean (SubT) Challenge which ...