DARPA hopes to eventually be able to sense "anomalous" fumes in major cities, catching a chemical distaster--or even attack--before it gets out of hand.

DARPA's Transformative Apps program provides digital imagery to dismounted troops through secured Android devices, but it also aims to build a library of secure military apps that are as simple to ...

DARPA to Map Monkey Brains Primates are again the target of DARPA, the military’s mad science research arm, as they attempt to master the animal kingdom.

DARPA Wants to Make Underground Maps on the Fly The agency is challenging teams to build systems that chart caves, tunnels and underground urban infrastructure.

From a team that competed in DARPA's Subterranean Challenge comes two new videos showing how robots see and chart underground spaces.

DARPA's funding their new cyberwarfare "Plan X" with $110 million in R&D over the next five years. What's in the works? New operating systems, sophisticated cyberwar scripts, and visual maps ...

DARPA Envisions Commercial Uses for Autonomous Off-Road Vehicles AI-driven vehicles designed to navigate tough terrain may handle nonmilitary missions.

Promising studies out of Johns Hopkins, Imperial College London, New York University, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and other institutions have found therapeutic ...

GPS doesn't penetrate the briny deep, so Darpa wants a system that will keep the its ocean-exploring robots on the map.

As head of DARPA’s TransApp program, Doran’s been on the front lines of the military’s battle to apply the undeniable utility of consumer smartphone technology and adapt it for use by the ...

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the moon and search for water.

The agency is challenging teams to build systems that chart caves, tunnels and underground urban infrastructure.