DARPA Robotics Challenge

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http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/TTO/Programs/DARPA_Robotics_Challenge.aspx

http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/TTO/Programs/DARPA_Robotics_Challenge/Track_A_Participants.aspx

http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/

Half Tank, Half Chimp - All Robot (Aviation Week/Ares blog)

 

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A photo gallery of images from the semi-finals back in December 2013.

 

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-robots-are-coming-1425582001

 

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http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/04/army-wants-robot-four-wheelers-and-decepticons/109687/?oref=d-dontmiss

 

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http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/g2050/these-are-darpas-next-gen-robotic-challenge-contestants/

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a15902/watch-darpa-robotics-challenge/

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a15907/best-falls-from-darpa-robot-challenge/

 

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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33045713

 

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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33045713

one certainly can't beat the pic of a robot being hauled out on stretcher ;D

 

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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33045713

one certainly can't beat the pic of a robot being hauled out on stretcher ;D

I think the robots did a fantastic job and I support their efforts.



p.s. 10 or 20 years from now they will remember who laughed at them.

 

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An interesting development: Toyota hires robotics expert for AI push (ft.com, registration may be required.)

To summarise, Toyota just effectively poached Gill Pratt (who formerly managed the Robotics Challenge) from DARPA.

Gill Pratt, who stepped down recently from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), will move to Silicon Valley to head Toyota’s robotics efforts, the company said. Darpa played a key role in stimulating interest in driverless cars with a competition in 2005 — the leader of the winning entry, Sebastian Thrun, who was then a professor at Stanford University, went on to found Google’s driverless car programme.

In an interview, Mr Pratt said Toyota planned to give drivers the choice one day of handing over full control to the AI “brains” in their vehicles. However, taking human drivers out of the picture would be optional, and the pleasure of controlling a vehicle was an “innate” one that would keep people behind the wheel.

“It is important to design in humans in the future,” he said at an event in Silicon Valley on Friday.