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April 15, 2014 “Repurposed Military Drones Create Mobile Wireless Hotspots”
11 years
The military is pouring a huge amount of resources into unmanned systems like UAVs. Every year, drones get fancier and more capable, which means that there’s an increasing number of slightly less fancy and slightly less capable drones gathering dust and feeling lonely in a hangar somewhere. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has an idea of what these drones might be good for: not delivering weapons, not surveillance, but instead providing mobile high-speed network connectivity for deployed troops.
Aug 23, 2013 “Atlas Robots Released To DARPA Challenge Teams”
11 years
The qualifying Track B teams from the DARPA Robotics Challenge have recently received their ATLAS humanoid robots. The teams, who got to this stage of the competition by proving their strategies on simulated robots, now get to work on the real thing.
June 27, 2013 “DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results”
11 years
The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, but there’s been an interesting change.
In the Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC), teams competed in a simulated suburban obstacle course.
