DARPA trials would apparently involve getting a robot to drive a utility vehicle, enter a locked room, and repair a pump. Eliminating members of the ragtag human Resistance comes later.

If you thought the Terminator movies were terrifying, you may not want to take a look at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) newest humanoid robot. ATLAS, as the robot is called ...

Defense contractors on Thursday unveiled one of the most advanced humanoid robots ever built as part of the DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge in Waltham, Mass.

DARPA recently held its Virtual Robotic Challenge, where competing teams applied their own software to a simulated robot in an attempt to spur development of advanced robots that ...

"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 ...

If you’ve ever needed a legitimate reason to question human obsolescence, DARPA just gave you one in the form of an ATLAS. No, ATLAS is not a map of the world; it’s a a 330 pound hydraulic ...

As the next generation in computing springs forth, so too does the robots world – and with it, replacements for human beings in dangerous situations. What the DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge ...

PET-PROTO is a relative of last year’s PETMAN, and its builder, Boston Dynamics, hope to use the advances it’s squeezed into the new robot in competition at DARPA’s Robotics Challenge in June.

DARPA has revealed the completed ATLAS humanoid robot, which is to star in the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) – and it cuts a striking figure. Designed by Boston Dynamics (the guys ...

As if existing robots, like the Army's Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR), weren't humanoid enough -- Darpa wants next-gen robots to resemble us even more.

Teams will program an upgraded--and cordless--robot to survive DARPA's obstacle course next June for $3.5 million in prize money.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has published concept artwork depicting the robots that will compete in its ambitious DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). The DRC will require robots to ...