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 ...

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How to revolutionize the high-tech world? The specialists at the Boston Dynamics American firm have a suitable answer: to design the most perfect robot ever created. Over the past 40 years, the ...

DARPA’s new MASH program aims to use autonomous robot medics to treat soldiers and save lives on the battlefield.

Thanks to the many ongoing projects in this field, we're used by now to seeing humanoid robots performing all sorts of impressive, almost human-like tasks and movements. But it's not until you see one ...

This weekend, Google-acquired Schaft bested 15 others teams competing in a robotics challenge sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), by remotely navigating a sophisticated ...

We love DARPA’s unsettlingly-lifelike BigDog bot. We love it in spite of the fact that it’s absolutely terrifying in motion. Now it has some bestial competition: the DARPA Cheetah. Ugh. Its legs. Its ...

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has released a new video of its humanoid robot Atlas – now performing tasks with zero human intervention. In the video released by the futuristic lab – the robot can ...