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Google's BattleMech wins DARPA robotics trials

submitted by radx

1 decade 4 months 2 weeks ago

The Google-owned Japanese robotics company SCHAFT has won the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials by a wide margin. It scored 27 out of 32 points, beating its nearest competitor IHMC Robotics by seven points. Coming up third was Tartan rescue with 18 points, and MIT following that with 16 points.

The contest took place Dec. 20-21 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, where 16 teams from around the world did their best to guide their robots through a series of tasks. The robots were to be programmed in such a way that they could be guided by simple commands issued by a non-expert, e.g., "Open the door" or "Clear away the debris in front of you."

--- SlashGear

6 Comments

Looks like a Mad Cat with claws instead of ER PPCs...

I can't be the only one that wondered where these were when Fukushima had it's meltdown. I think lots of us expected the Japanese to have robots like these at the ready and were surprised at their absence. Now it looks like they're really still in their infancy, but getting there. Maybe for the next major meltdown.

Schaft!

Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
(Schaft!)
You're damn right

Who is the man
That would risk his neck for his brother man?
(Schaft!)
Can ya dig it?

Who's the cat that won't cop out
When there's danger all about
(Schaft!)
Right on

You see this cat Schaft is a bad mother--
(Shut your mouth)
But I'm talkin' about Schaft
(Then we can dig it)

He's a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
(Schaft)

I for one WELCOME our robot overlords!

mindbrain says...

Soon these things will be busting through walls and doors demanding all to use Google+.

Lowen jokingly says...

I think you meant Timber Wolf. Freebirth inner spheroids!

Looks like a Mad Cat with claws instead of ER PPCs...

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