This weekend 17 teams headed down to Homestead, Florida to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials, a gauntlet of eight tasks designed to test robots that could aid after natural disasters.
The tasks included driving a vehicle, traversing uneven terrain, climbing a ladder, clearing debris, opening a series of doors, drilling through a wall, opening a valve, and reeling a hose. Teams either built their own robots or wrote software to run on a Boston Dynamics Atlas robot.
It sounds simple for some of the most advanced robots in the world, but only a few teams were able to score full points on any of the tasks, and three teams scored zero points despite spending over two hours trying. Spectators witnessed a lot of falling,...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/22/5235528/next-generation-robots-drive-climb-and-drill-through-walls-at-darpa
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