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DARPA Robotics Challenge Awarding $3.5M Prize Purse With Atlas Upgrade

A total of $3.5 million in prizes will now be awarded to the top three finishers in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)...

Raytheon Working On ‘Plan X’ DARPA Cyber Networking Project

Raytheon says it is working on the Plan X program, which seeks to help U.S. government agencies plan, execute and assess cyber network operations. Raytheon...

Google Buys Robotics Company Boston Dynamics

Google has acquired Boston Dynamics, a company that makes robots that can walk, run, and is capable of maintaining balance on different terrain. The...

Robotics Competition Lets Students Control Satellites Aboard ISS

An algorithm competition from Zero Robotics seeks computationally efficient code solutions to control a satellite in space. The developers? Students. Competitors in the tournament...

Fighters Monitor Their Own Brain Waves For Threat Detection

A new DARPA technology lets soldiers monitor their own brain waves and run cognitive algorithms for threat detection. Soldeirs  rely on their own vision to...