The challenge is aimed at developing autonomous robotic solutions for first responders in underground environments where GPS and direct communications are unavailable.

Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) will demonstrate its Multi-Arm Robot Control Software (MARCS) technology at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Expo taking place at Homestead-Miami Speedway on ...

"The primary goal of the DARPA Robotics Challenge program is to develop ground robotic capabilities to execute complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments," explains the ...

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 DARPA Robotics Challenge is getting harder -- much harder -- and as a result it's pushing its robotic contestants into exciting new territory.

One such system, RoboScout, Maryland's entry in a competition run by the defense agency DARPA, would rapidly survey and assess injuries at sites of disasters or violence. The information RoboScout ...

No drivers at all. This was the DARPA Grand Challenge — the world’s first robot car race. It was March 13th, 2004, a watershed moment in autonomous vehicle history.