The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded autonomy developer PhysicsAI a contract to design, train and test AI-enabled soaring capabilities for drones, the company announced today.

DARPA has launched a prize challenge to demonstrate multicopter uncrewed aircraft that can carry payloads more than four times their weight in a stated goal of tapping into the U.S. “garage innovator” ...

This is not your ordinary military drone. This one can transform into different shapes and pick stuff up right off the ground. Transporting military troops or delivering necessary supplies has become ...

An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a ...

A robot hummingbird is the military's latest flying spy machine, with a camera affixed to a featherweight 6.5-inch body that flies by flapping its wings. The "Nano Hummingbird" can fly just 11 miles ...