DARPA Launches $6.5M Heavy-Lift Drone Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is challenging engineers to overcome a persistent bottleneck in aviation: the low payload-to-weight ratio of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). By hosting the DARPA Lift Challenge, the agency aims to incentivize designs capable of carrying payloads more than four times their own weight, a threshold that could mirror the … Read more