DARPA’s Triage Challenge tests drones and ground robots that can locate casualties, assess injuries remotely, and relay data ahead of the 2026 finale.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected eight teams eligible to receive up to $1 million to continue their work following the conclusion of the agency’s Robotics Challenge ...

U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers from the 440th S&E (Search and Extraction Team) along with members of the Tift County Fire and Rescue work together to log roll a patient onto a stretcher to be ...

The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was created with a clear vision: spur development of advanced robots that can assist humans in mitigating and recovering from future natural and man-made disasters.

(Photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob Osborne/U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command) At Black Hat USA 2023, DARPA issued a call to top computer scientists, AI experts, software developers, and beyond to ...

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A new government-run competition seeks to advance the boundaries of computer network analysis and defense by developing autonomous cyberdefense capabilities, which combine the speed and scale of ...

Government agency, in contest designed to gauge participants' social-networking savvy, plans to award $40,000 to the first person who pinpoints red weather balloons placed across States. Lance Whitney ...

A 10-school collaboration led by Drexel University is one of several groups worldwide who are working to advance robotics technology for disaster relief as part of a challenge laid down by the U.S.

WORCESTER, Mass. — A vehicle drives toward a disaster site, robot at the wheel. The robot stops the car and then steps out to walk toward the disaster. That’s not scene from the latest sci-fi movie, ...

In June, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency wrapped up its Robotics Challenge and awarded millions of dollars to the winning robotics teams from the United States and South Korea. But how ...

On the chilly morning of October 9, 2005, spectators held their breath as a 16,000-pound robotic truck known as TerraMax started down the steep, narrow cliffs of Nevada's Beer Bottle Pass. The day ...