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Seven Software Teams Move Forward In DARPA Robotics Challenge

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, July 5th, 2013

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Seven Software Teams Move Forward In DARPA Robotics Challenge

Nine teams have merged into seven and are receiving support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to compete with an ATLAS robot in the 2013 DARPA Robotic Challenge Trials, the agency said. The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was created to spur development of advanced robots that can assist people in mitigating and recovering from future natural and man-made disasters. The first of three DRC events was a software competition carried out in a virtual environment that looked like…

Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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Congress

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