Simulated Disasters Help Train Drones, Robots for Triage

This was the second year of the DARPA Triage Challenge grant program, which saw teams test their AI-driven bots in disaster ...
The Atlantic

Humanoid Robots DARPA Hopes Will Save Human Lives

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.
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Meet “CODiAQ”, the U.S. Grenade-Firing Robot Dog Built for Combat—And It’s Headed to the Battlefield

On a recent autumn morning in Washington, amid the polished halls of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual ...
Defense One

Robots to the rescue: Humanoid systems take up DARPA’s challenge

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 ...
The Atlantic

DARPA Contest Lets Robots Compete to Save Humanity from Itself

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 ...
eWeek

Humanoid Robots Will Achieve a Major Milestone This Month

They may not be able to pass the Turing Test, but the robots competing in the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing from August 15-17 will be making history. There will be more than 100 ...
NextBigFuture

DARPA Developing Quantum Sensors that Are Durable for Real World Use

DARPA launched Phase 1 of its Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) program, a groundbreaking effort to develop and deploy quantum sensing technology. Quantum sensors ...
TechCrunch

Rich Mahoney

Rich Mahoney is the CEO and Founder of Seismic, a spin-off venture from SRI International, where he was the Director of one of the best robotics programs in the world for more than seven years. During ...