Robots & Drones.

wng_kingsley7 · December 25, 2013

Click the link to read the full article at the verge:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/22/5235528/next-generation-robots-drive-climb-and-drill-through-walls-at-darpa

Engage the DARPA Challenge trails a.k.a (Danger:Autonomous:Robots:Playing:At will)

"Tomorrow's robots drive, climb, and drill through walls at DARPA trials

The robots of the future are here, and they move very, very slowly"

The winning robot was the humanoid HRP-2 robot built by Schaft, a Japanese company that was bought by Google this year. The win was no surprise, as Schaft had released videos in advance of its robot completing all the tasks. Schaft scored an incredible 27 out of a possible 32 points.

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.

A staggering movement with slow increases of growth for robot's today....a worldwide intelligence network army tomorrow.

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