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 ...

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.

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One of the hardest tasks for robots in the 2013 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge Trials was driving. During the DRC Finals in June, the 25 competing robots and ...

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