Sebastian Thrun led his Stanford team to victory in the DARPA robot-car race. How long will it be till we see such cars on the street? In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts ...

Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious, Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics, the company behind the widely used robotics ...

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 ...

The number one cause of potentially survivable fatalities at the point of conflict is noncompressible torso hemorrhage, Lt. Col. Adam Willis, M.D., USAF, program manager in the Biological Technologies ...

Nicola Bezzo, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a 2025 Young Faculty Award from DARPA.

NASA’s Valkyrie humanoid robot is heading back to Johnson Space Center in Texas after spending a full decade at the ...

Just when we thought the fight couldn’t get any harder against our soon-to-be robotic overlords, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decides to screw us over. They’ve issued a ...

Yesterday marked Day 1 of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, in which elite robots from around the world faced off to compete for $3.5 million in prizes. We saw ...

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 ...

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