Via Armed with Science:
The goal of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) is to generate groundbreaking research and development so that future robotics can perform the most hazardous activities. This is so that, in future disaster response operations – and in tandem with their human counterparts – they can have the capacity to reduce casualties, avoid further destruction, and save lives. So what is DARPA looking for in the next generation of robots?
Points:
- “This competition is broken up into three parts for 2013: The Virtual Robotics Challenge, the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials, and the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.”
- “VRC is a cloud-based competition designed to test Track B and C teams’ abilities to accomplish a subset of the physical Challenge tasks through simulation of a robot. These teams will be evaluated based on effective operator control of the robots in a subset of the DRC Trials tasks, as well as addressing the areas of robot perception, manipulation, and locomotion.”
- “In the DRC Trials in December 2013, the robots will need to perform disaster response operations in 8 vignettes.”
- “In December 2014, DARPA anticipates that the teams will be able to perform all of the 8 tasks as part of one continuous physical disaster scenario.”
