DARPA Robotics Challenge

This week DARPA kicks off a competition called the Subterranean Challenge, where hordes of robots are unleashed into caves and tunnels to test how well they can autonomously navigate these environments. One team's designs could lead to robots that explore caves on other planets.

The recent 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge saw 24 of the most sophisticated robots ever built competing against one another, but there's a lot more to the story. Gizmag went behind the scenes to the "garage" where the tech teams tended their robotic chargesto learn more.

At the recent 2015 DRC Finals, 24 teams faced off in a competition designed to help develop robots capable of working in disaster areas.To find out more about what goes into programming a humanoid robot and the future of robotics, we talked to the Lockheed Martin Team Trooper leader, Todd Danko.

The recent 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals saw the world's most advanced robots facing off against one another, but outside the grandstand was the latest in robots and robotic technology was being shown off.

The 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in Pomona, California have come to a close with South Korea's Team KAIST's DRC-HUBO robot taking the first prize in the $3.5 million competition.

The DARPA Robotics Challenge is aimed at creating robots that may one day help responders during major disasters. The 2015 final is host to 23 international teams competing for US$3.5 million in prizes.

Coming hot on the heels of MIT's leaping and bounding robotic cheetah is Oregon State University's ATRIAS bipedal robot. The team behind this ostrich-like machine has showcased its latest talent, the ability to blindly walk over the top of obstacles in its path.

On June 5 and 6, the 2015 DARPA Robotic Challenge (DRC) Finals will take place at Fairplex in Pomona, California. Open to the public, it will see 25 international teams compete for US$3.5 million in prizes as part of an effort to develop robots for disaster relief. Here's what to expect.

ATRIAS is a project of Oregon State University's Dynamic Robotics Laboratory built to research the science of walking and running with the ultimate goal of creating a robot that can make its way over rough terrain while "standing."

Like a teenager going off to college, DARPA's Atlas robot has cut the tether and is walking on its own without a safety line.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have created a new six-legged robot dubbed "Snake Monster", which uses a reconfigurable platform with a system architecture that may be easily programmed to govern robots with a variety of configurations and applications.

In October, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. California unveiled a new and improved version of its RoboSimian robot. Called Surrogate, it has many advantages over its predecessor, but it's RoboSimian that is going to next year's DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.