{"id":5796,"date":"2013-12-22T19:04:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2013-12-22T19:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:04:42","slug":"sci-tech-darpa-robotics-challenge-competition-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5796","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: DARPA Robotics Challenge competition in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroboticschallenge.org\/\" target=\"_d\">DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials<\/a>\u00a0took place on Friday and Saturday at Florida\u2019s Homestead Miami Speedway. Seventeen teams participated in the competition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., prepared this past week for a competition unlike any it has ever seen: the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials. Instead of dozens of state-of-the-art cars racing and maneuvering at blazing speeds and covering hundreds of miles, the DRC Trials puts slow prototype robots through a series of simple tasks such as opening doors or walking a short distance. The two-day event, [&#8230;] , aims to speed development of robots that could perform a number of critical real-world emergency-response tasks after future natural and man-made disasters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There finalists this year will go on to the next round next year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Trials will provide a baseline on the current state of robotics and determine which teams will continue on to the DRC Finals in 2014 with continued DARPA funding. Competing in the 2014 Finals will lead to one team winning a $2 million prize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reports from the competition<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/NewsEvents\/Releases\/2013\/12\/19.aspx\" target=\"_d\">DRC Trials 2013 Countdown: Anatomy of a Disaster-Response Robot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/NewsEvents\/Releases\/2013\/12\/19a.aspx\" target=\"_d\">DRC Trials 2013 Countdown: Meet the Teams<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/NewsEvents\/Releases\/2013\/12\/21.aspx\" target=\"_d\">DRC Trials 2013: Transforming a NASCAR Racetrack into a (Simulated) Disaster Area<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/NewsEvents\/Releases\/2013\/12\/21a.aspx\" target=\"_d\">DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials Get Off to a Positive Start<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A DARPA video about the event:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?list=UUOIHBHRbvncMo7Bf0Vx1zEQ&amp;v=b6UzI7MyqvU\" target=\"_d\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b6UzI7MyqvU&amp;feature=share&amp;list=UUOIHBHRbvncMo7Bf0Vx1zEQ&amp;index=17<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find lots more videos at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DARPAtv\/videos\" target=\"_d\">DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency &#8211; YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an info graphic about the Atlas robot from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostondynamics.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Boston Dynamics<\/a>, which was recently <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/google-buys-boston-dynamics-acquires-robots-play\/story?id=21233076\" target=\"_d\">bought by Google<\/a>\u00a0along with several other robotics firms:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DRC-Anatomy Robot Inline\" alt=\"DRC-Anatomy Robot Inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/uploadedImages\/Content\/NewsEvents\/Releases\/2013\/AnatomyofaRobotv4FINAL_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"946\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a DARPA video about Atlas and Boston Dynamics:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WW2lJxqyYrk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials\u00a0took place on Friday and Saturday at Florida\u2019s Homestead Miami Speedway. Seventeen teams participated in the competition: Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., prepared this past week for a competition unlike any it has ever seen: the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials. Instead of dozens of state-of-the-art cars racing and maneuvering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: DARPA Robotics Challenge competition in Florida<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1vu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3330,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3330","url_meta":{"origin":5796,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Update on DARPA Robotics Challenge","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest on the DARPA Robotics Challenge competition: DARPA\u2019s ATLAS Robot Unveiled Seven Track B\/C Teams to Train on the ATLAS Robot; Six Track A Teams Pass Critical Design Review of Robots to Advance to DRC Trials at the Homestead-Miami Speedway this December On Monday, July 8, 2013, the seven\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science and Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science and Technology","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=9"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/zkBnFPBV3f0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5855,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5855","url_meta":{"origin":5796,"position":1},"title":"Sci-Tech: DARPA overview of Robotics Challenge Trials results","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"DARPA managers seem pleased with the first round of \u00a0The Robotics Challenge\u00a0(see also earlier post): After Impressive Demonstrations of Robot Skill, DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials Conclude 8 teams eligible to receive up to $1 million to prepare for upcoming DRC Finals\u00a0 On December 20-21, 2013, 16 teams were the main\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science and Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science and Technology","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=9"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/UUOIHBHRbvncMo7Bf0Vx1zEQ\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6084,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6084","url_meta":{"origin":5796,"position":2},"title":"Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge on Jan.17 &#8211; Webcast on NASA TV","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Students will once again compete in programming the SPHERES robots on the ISS: NASA, MIT, DARPA Host Fifth Annual Student Robotics Challenge Jan. 17\u00a0 NASA will participate in the fifth annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge Friday, Jan. 17, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Mass. 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