Vehicles and buildings designed to enable survival in extreme environments, such as spacecraft, submarines and sealed ...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818 ...

DARPA wants to move drones to the next level with its Lift Challenge – a US$6.5-million competition aimed at creating small ...

The order announced the “Genesis Mission” for AI, a new federal push to mobilize the federal government's research and data ...

DARPA's Lift Challenge aims to develop small uncrewed aircraft systems (drones) capable of carrying up to four times their own weight, a substantial leap from the typical 1:1 payload-to-weight ratio.

RACER Heavy Platform (RHP) during RACER testing in April 2025. (DARPA) The U.S. Army is slated to begin its first integration of an unmanned ground vehicle, or UGV, produced by the Defense Advanced ...

A robot dog approaches a mannequin simulating an injured person during a demonstration of robot-assisted triage at the University of Maryland on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (TNS) — In a simulated natural ...

Forget robot wolves and missile-deflecting satellites — those things are already becoming old news. Instead, future wars just might revolve around insect-size spy robots. A recent digest of ...

DARPA will kick off development of a High-Mach Gas Turbine (HMGT) engine with a 15-month project worth up to $40 million to define the architecture and set the conceptual design, the agency said Sept.

The US DARPA is sending out a call for companies researching half synthetic, half biological robotics. The goal is to advance robotics research beyond anything it's currently capable of. > Social ...

The future on the high seas for the Navy may be one without sailors. Unmanned ships like the USS Mariner and Ranger, and the recently launched USX-1 Defiant, are opening up a world that gives the Navy ...

The “Liberty Lifter” fits neatly into the operational concepts sculpting how US joint forces intend to compete and win in the Western Pacific. All hail the “ekranoplan”! The US military may have hit ...