Korean team takes top prize in US-sponsored robotics challenge
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028936
New York Times : A robotics team from Korea has won the $2 million first-place prize offered by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the final competition of its Robotics Challenge . The challenge was launched in 2012, following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Twenty-three international teams competed, creating robots designed for disaster recovery work. Each robot had to complete eight tasks, including driving a vehicle, operating a drill, turning valves, and climbing stairs. Despite advances in the technology, current robot designs are still far from being autonomous; those in the competition were controlled remotely and wirelessly by human operators. US teams won the second- and third-place prizes.
