THE rise of the machines has been postponed — if we don’t laugh ourselves into oblivion! Watch the epic fails of the world’s most advanced robots as they compete in their own Olympiad. United States ...

South Korean competitors Team Kaist saw their Hubo robot power home ahead of its rivals to help them to US$2m top prize in DARPA’s Robotics Challenge (DRC), with Running Man and Chimp rounding out the ...

DARPA's Robotic Challenge took place in Florida over the weekend, pitting some of the world's most advanced humanoid robots against each other in a series of complex tasks, and rather fortuitously for ...

Teams have been selected to compete in a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) challenge to demonstrate a robot that can help humans respond to disasters. Under the Darpa Robotics ...

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 ...

DARPA's Atlas robot has been revamped ahead of this summer's competition. But robotics teams will have to develop their own software for the improved bot. What do you call a robot that can drive a car ...

The coolest robotics competition around is about to get going, with 24 awesome-looking machines created to help us mere humans in times of strife. Take a look at the contenders for the DARPA Robotics ...

When it comes to fully functional humanoid robots with versatile real-world dexterity, there are basically only two big games in town: ATLAS, a stompy kill-bot created by Boston Dynamics, and SCHAFT, ...

One animal-inspired micro robot is the RoboBee, a device weighing less than a tenth of a gram, developed at Harvard’s Wyss ...

The new robot, dubbed 'Atlas Unplugged', runs entirely on batteries, is controlled via wireless, and doesn't need a safety tether to hold itself up, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) will demonstrate its Multi-Arm Robot Control Software (MARCS) technology at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Expo taking place at Homestead-Miami Speedway on ...

Wired on Friday: The world of robotics is one of those pursuits that is peppered with cheerfully optimistic predictions that are then quietly buried for decades after their supposed due date, writes ...