Two requests to industry may help the Pentagon address one of the emerging challenges of warfare: enabling a relatively small ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new contest: create a humanoid robot that can navigate a world made for humans. We take a look at five of them and ...

About a year into the job, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency director Stephen Winchell is looking to reshape the agency’s space portfolio, arguing it must function less as a collection of high ...

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 ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

When it comes to fully functional humanoid robots with versatile real-world dexterity, there are basically only two big games in town: ATLAS, a stompy kill-bot created by Boston Dynamics, and SCHAFT, ...