DARPA Robotics Challenge

With the announcement of Team Grit and 24 other teams we are seeing a number of news articles showing up online. Here are a few that give some information about the challenge, the teams, and photos of the robots we are up against.

• These 25 Teams Will Try to Win DARPA’s Robot Olympics – Popular Mechanics
• 25 Teams to Participate in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals – Product Design & Development
• The Robots Are Coming – The Wall Street Journal
• THE SCARY-DEXTEROUS ROBOTS OF THE DARPA CHALLENGE – Wired
• Blog: DARPA Announces Robotics Challenge Finalists – SIGNAL
• Local robot Calif.-bound 
to compete – The Daily Sentinel
• DEATH BY SLAPSTICK: WILL THE DARPA ROBOTICS CHALLENGE’S FINAL, GRUELING STAGE KILL THE HUMANOID BOT? – Popular Science
• Pentagon invites Team Grit’s robot to compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge –  The Criterion (CMU)
• Blíží se přehlídka nejlepších humanoidních robotů na světě Více na (Approaching the best show of humanoid robots in the world) – ZIVE.cz

We look forward to seeing more news!

DARPA has announced Team Grit as a qualified! Cog-Burn our robot, will be one of 25 robots developed to provide assistance to humans in a disaster. There is also a $3.5 million worth of prizes for the top 3 teams. Finals will be on June 5th and 6th 2015 at Fairplex in Pomona, California.

The full press release from DARPA can be found at: 20150304_Web_Feature_DRC_Teams_Finals.pdf

Below is a video showing some improvements in the works to increase movement speeds, the speed is necessary to compete with the increased difficulty of the finals challenges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MKwBObn4xk