General Electric Company’s technological development division GE Research is creating and refining a soft and smart tunnel-digging robot—inspired by the makeup and movements of earthworms—that could ...

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Pittsburgh-made autonomous vehicles are going underground next week. Carnegie Mellon University’s Team Explorer robots will be competing in the final event at the upcoming DARPA Subterranean Challenge ...

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, ...

Led by NASA JPL, Team CoSTAR will participate in the SubT final this week to demonstrate multi-robot autonomy in a series of tests in extreme environments. Eight teams featuring dozens of robots from ...

DARPA recently held its Virtual Robotic Challenge, where competing teams applied their own software to a simulated robot in an attempt to spur development of advanced robots that can assist in ...

PITTSBURGH—Roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University will field two teams in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge, a competition in which robots will perform ...

An article in Digital Trends on the DARPA’s research to train military robots with human brain waves features a real-life strategy game designed by UB engineers in which players must use resources to ...