DARPA Subterranean Challenge To Test Unmanned Ground/Air Teams

Credit: UAV in mine: DARPA
First it was driverless vehicles, then disaster-response robots. Now DARPA wants to take robotics underground with a challenge to autonomously search tunnel systems and cave networks for foes in combat or victims of natural disasters. Nine teams of academia and industry have each been awarded up to...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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