Through its Tactical Technology Office (TTO), DARPA wants to move drones to the next level with its Lift Challenge – a US$6.5-million competition aimed at creating small drones capable of lifting ...

DARPA's "Lift Challenge" aims to develop small uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) capable of carrying up to four times their own weight, a significant improvement over the typical 1:1 payload-to-weight ...

DARPA recognizes that insect-scale flying robots have immense military potential. In laboratories around the world, engineers are racing to shrink robotics into microscopic proportions, many examples ...

As technology begins to advance, size is starting to matter less as military drones are shrinking down to the siz of a mosquito. ‘Nano drones’, sometimes called ‘micro drones’ are being increasingly ...