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Wednesday, July 03, 2013

#ROBOTICS: "Rival Shapes Drive Robot Competition"

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring the construction of several unique search-and-rescue robots for its Robotic Challenge to be held later this year. The finalists in the $2 million contest--to be announced July 11th--come in a variety of styles all aimed at beating the seven teams using DARPA's own Atlas robot made for it by Boston Dynamics: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab is sponsoring the only non-humanoid robot which uses three legs to brace itself while the fourth leg acts like a hand for operating tools.
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