DARPA News
Latest DARPA news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 10 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About DARPA
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, stealth aircraft and, more recently, autonomous vehicles, drone swarms and satellite-servicing robotics. The agency's Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program, executed with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Northrop Grumman, delivered the first fully articulated robotic arms designed to grapple, inspect and repair existing satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
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Latest DARPA news
- MicroVision Expands FieldAI Lidar Deal to Cover Ground Robots and Drones — FieldAI has purchased MicroVision's MOVIA lidar sensors for government and industrial robotics programs, widening a testing partnership across ground...
- Microsoft Opens Maryland Quantum Center, Hands DARPA Live Majorana 2 Access — The 15,000-square-foot College Park facility gives DARPA researchers direct on-site control of Microsoft's topological quantum processor for the first...
- Xanadu Posts Higher Q2 Revenue, Doubles Down on U.S. Photonic Push — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — DARPA opened an RFI for Materials for Physical Compute in Untethered Robotics, asking how sensing and computation could be embedded directly into a ro...