The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency next week will kick off its inaugural Lift Challenge, a weeklong competition that aims to "revolutionize heavy vertical-lift aviation" by finding a drone ...

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) issued a challenge, the DARPA Lift Challenge, in October 2025 to develop novel drone designs that have greater payload-to-weight ratio. DARPA, which ...

Through its Tactical Technology Office (TTO), DARPA wants to move drones to the next level with its Lift Challenge – a US$6.5-million competition aimed at creating small drones capable of lifting ...

Find out what some of the engineering challenges and tradeoffs are for sUAS heavy lift drones. Get an early look at some of the contenders in this year’s DARPA Lift Challenge. Some interesting ...

A recent Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency prize challenge pushed the bounds of long-held standards in the vertical ...

Congress created the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to make sure America was never beaten by technological ...

When it comes to fully functional humanoid robots with versatile real-world dexterity, there are basically only two big games in town: ATLAS, a stompy kill-bot created by Boston Dynamics, and SCHAFT, ...

A 10-school collaboration led by Drexel University is one of several groups worldwide who are working to advance robotics technology for disaster relief as part of a challenge laid down by the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A resupply drone takes off during a heavy unmanned aerial resupply test flight at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near ...