The Army has identified the sheer weight of all the gear soldiers must carry, often 100 pounds or more, as one of the top five science and technology challenges facing the service. Now, the Defense ...

In situations where battlefield medical care becomes overwhelmed during heavy combat, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking toward a future in which robot medics tend to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DARPA wants to 3D print concrete underwater using seafloor sediment and seawater. The supporting tech could autonomously repair ...

The Pentagon today announced a robot competition, putting out a call for the type of full-service bot that could go into a dangerous emergency situation, perform multiple tasks and complete a mission.

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 ...

Congress created the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to make sure America was never beaten by technological surprise.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s third and final challenge among 24 or so U.S. and international human-robot teams will take place in California next June, ending with a $2 million ...