DARPA News Latest DARPA news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 8 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense created in 1958 to invest in breakthrough technologies for national security. DARPA programs have produced the ARPANET (progenitor of the internet), GPS, steal...
Xanadu Posts Higher Q2 Revenue, Doubles Down on U.S. Photonic Push — Aug 7, 2026 — Photonic quantum computing pioneer Xanadu grew Q2 revenue to $1.5M, cut chip coupling losses to a record 0.085 dB and scaled its Albany, New York foot...IonQ Wins $28M DARPA Extension To Build 125 Evergreen-05 Optical Atomic Clocks — Aug 6, 2026 — IonQ has bagged a $28M DARPA It’s About Time contract extension to scale production of its Vector Atomic-derived Evergreen-05 optical atomic clocks an...SpaceX Launches Northrop's Robotic Servicing Vehicle On Decade-Long Mission — Jul 24, 2026 — A SpaceX Falcon 9 lofted Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle and three Mission Extension Pods on July 21, kicking off a decade-long DARPA-backe...Infleqtion To Deploy Fault-Tolerant Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer At Illinois Park — Jul 23, 2026 — Infleqtion said it will deliver a fault-tolerant, NVIDIA NVQLink-integrated neutral-atom quantum computer to the Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics P...SAXON Q Ships First 100+ Qubit Room-Temperature Diamond Quantum Computers — Jul 23, 2026 — Leipzig-based SAXON Q announced commercial availability of the 128-qubit SXQ128 and 512-qubit SXQ512, the first diamond nitrogen-vacancy quantum compu...PsiQuantum Signs $125M Expanded DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Deal — Jul 22, 2026 — PsiQuantum signs a $125M performance-based tasking with DARPA under the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, its largest U.S. government award to date and...Senate NDAA Authorises Four-Star Combatant Command For Drones And Robotics — Jun 13, 2026 — The Senate Armed Services Committee's $1.15T fiscal 2027 NDAA gives the Pentagon permission to stand up a new four-star Robotic and Autonomous Systems...DARPA Wants Robots That Think Through Their Materials, Not Their Chips — Jun 1, 2026 — DARPA opened an RFI for Materials for Physical Compute in Untethered Robotics, asking how sensing and computation could be embedded directly into a ro...