Tartan Rescue (Carnegie Mellon University, National Robotics Engineering Center, Pittsburgh). I like the belt sander components.
Team DRC-Hubo @ UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Team WPI-CMU (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.), supported by Boston Dynamics
Team IHMC Robotics (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Fla.)
Team NimbRo Rescue (University of Bonn, Bonn)
Team Intelligent Pioneer (Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changzhou)
Team ROBOTIS (ROBOTIS, Seoul)
Darpa's Robotics Challenge will culminate in a final competition June 5-6 with $3.5 million in prizes. 25 teams from the United States, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, China, and South Korea are in the running. Learn more at Armed with Science's post It’s the Final Robot Countdown!. (All photo credits: Darpa)