Michigan Tech faculty are developing a microbe-fueled power supply system that could keep ocean sensors in the water longer ...

Florida Air National Guard, 125th Medical Group Detachment 1, practice triage at Camp Blanding, Florida, September 20, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cole Benjamin) The Research ...

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) issued a challenge, the DARPA Lift Challenge, in October 2025 to develop novel drone designs that have greater payload-to-weight ratio. DARPA, which ...

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, ...

This summer, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the Pentagon, is hosting a challenge that seeks to address the limitations of the human response to natural and ...

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 ...

Will quantum computers really change the world, or will they never fully come to fruition? Joe Altepeter, who has been researching quantum computing for more than 15 years and is a program manager for ...

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 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has created a series of three design challenges aimed at developing the next-generation military ground vehicle. In a new video, DARPA explains the “Fast, ...

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 ...

Founded in 1958, DARPA operates under the US Department of Defense (DoD) with a straightforward mission: to fund high-risk technological programmes that could lead to radical innovation. DARPA ...