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 ...

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Stimuli-responsive polymers have gained increasing attention for their applications ranging from soft robotic grippers to actuators. By controlling strain within thin thermoplastic sheets, these small ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

The current state of robotics will be put to a serious test this weekend as 17 robots and software teams take their autonomous unmanned systems to Florida for the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

The Department of Defense's research arm has already funded the design of a cheetah-like robot that broke the land speed record, and a more humanoid machine to safely test military combat gear. Now ...

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 ...

DARPA recognizes that insect-scale flying robots have immense military potential. In laboratories around the world, engineers are racing to shrink robotics into microscopic proportions, many examples ...

Military researchers pit millimeter-scale robotic against Olympic-style challenges to solve real-world rescue problems. DARPA’s SHort-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms program isn’t just ...

Earlier this week, 23 robots from all over the world competed in Pomona, Calif., for a $2 million prize in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. And thousands of humans watched as the machines showed off ...

One animal-inspired micro robot is the RoboBee, a device weighing less than a tenth of a gram, developed at Harvard’s Wyss Institute. The RoboBee’s wings beat hundreds of times per second—much like a ...