Competitors will be expected to build a 55-pound drone (or lighter) capable of carrying four times its weight — 220 pounds or more —then fly that weight across a five-nautical-mile course outside the ...
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 ...
The DARPA TERN program investigates how compact naval vessels could deploy reconnaissance drones without large flight decks. Engineers are working to solve takeoff, recovery, and stability challenges ...
To find a way to lift up to four times as much weight with drone technology, DARPA is turning to the public in an open ...
The two-week window for the first flight under DARPA’s Launch Challenge opened on Feb. 17. For California startup Astra, the sole competitor left in the responsive-launch contest, it will also be the ...
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 ...