DARPA Robotics Challenge: the competition begins | IEEE Spectrum

Post author By John Payne
Post date October 25, 2012

Today, October 24, is opening day for the DARPA Robotics Challenge, or DRC. The press release sums it up nicely: “over the next two years, teams will compete to develop and put to the test hardware and software designed to enable robots to assist humans in emergency response when a disaster strikes.”

See on spectrum.ieee.org (DARPA press release, Track A participants)

Tags DARPA, DRC, Robotics Challenge

By John Payne

Metals shop and auto mechanics in high school; B.A. in Biology, eventually leading to an interest in General Systems and computing; interest in robotics sparked by the realization that autonomous machines could enable a vast improvement in land management.

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