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DARPA’s Micro Robot Contest Showcases the Best of Microbot Technology

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a very unique competition where microbots — robots the size of bugs and insects — will compete against one another on various parameters ranging from speed, strength, agility, and so on. The microbot competition With a shape and size that mimics the various insects found in ...

October 27, 2020

Raven Montmorency

DARPA Is Looking at Insect Brains to Build Conscious Robots

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a new program that aims to study the brains of insects to create conscious robots. The program comes under the agency’s broader US$2 billion Artificial Intelligence project unveiled last year that plans on creating “third wave” AI. Insect-inspired AI “Nature has forced on these small insects ...

January 28, 2019

Jack Roberts