DARPA Robotics Challenge

Beginner’s guide to the humanoid robot challenge (DRC)

Andra Keay 03 Dec 2013

The first real world trial in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) will be held on December 20-21 2013 at Homestead Freeway in Florida. Yes, it's open to the public. Anyone can come along and watch huma...

DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge a practical step forward on the long road toward disaster-response capable humanoids

Hallie Siegel 24 Jul 2013

Based on a media rountable discussion with DRC Program Manager Gill Pratt and CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation Brian Gerkey. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster was a wake-up call...

euRathlon and the DARPA Robot Challenge: A difference of approach

Alan Winfield 22 Jul 2013

A week ago the DARPA Robotics Challenge unveiled the ATLAS humanoid robot, which will be used by seven competing teams. Developed by Boston Dynamics, ATLAS is an imposing 1.8m 150Kg bipedal humano...

Visions of transformative research: Risk-reward, variation-selection, hot trends, exploration of the wild

Juan Rogers 08 Jul 2013

Over the last 20 years or so, a sense that science has become conservative or incrementalist has developed, and calls for change in the approaches to public funding of research have been heard from va...

DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results

Andra Keay 27 Jun 2013

The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, b...