Stimuli-responsive polymers have gained increasing attention for their applications ranging from soft robotic grippers to actuators. By controlling strain within thin thermoplastic sheets, these small ...

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In 2012, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). The multi-year, multi-million-dollar competition for disaster robotics resulted in Boston ...

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.

NASA’s Valkyrie humanoid robot is heading back to Johnson Space Center in Texas after spending a full decade at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The 1.8-meter, 125-kilogram electric humanoid, ...

Earlier this week, 23 robots from all over the world competed in Pomona, Calif., for a $2 million prize in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. And thousands of humans watched as the machines showed off ...

In the days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, the Japanese government sent robots into contaminated reactors and turbines to survey damage, measure radiation and move hazardous debris.

This summer, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the Pentagon, is hosting a challenge that seeks to address the limitations of the human response to natural and ...

One of the hardest tasks for robots in the 2013 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge Trials was driving. During the DRC Finals in June, the 25 competing robots and ...

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