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...

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