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IEEE Spectrum is running a series of articles on the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), which runs this weekend (the 6th & 7th of June) and in which the finalists will be scored on a set of tasks relevant to disaster response scenarios.
There's an overview of the course and the challenges the robots will face:
The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals is all about the course: the sequence of eight tasks that the robots are going to try to complete in 60 minutes or less. We’ll take a look at each one of the tasks, and go through all the rules that the robots are going to have to follow as they make it through to victory.
Also a background article summarises the schedule and previous Spectrum coverage.
The associated DARPA site has additional background information and updates:
The DRC is a competition of robot systems and software teams vying to develop robots capable of assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters. It was designed to be extremely difficult. Participating teams, representing some of the most advanced robotics research and development organizations in the world, are collaborating and innovating on a very short timeline to develop the hardware, software, sensors, and human-machine control interfaces that will enable their robots to complete a series of challenge tasks selected by DARPA for their relevance to disaster response.
Ed Note: See our earlier coverage of Uber Poaches Robotics Scientists from Carnegie Mellon.
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday June 05 2015, @03:10PM
I was hoping these would be fully autonomous bots.
Maybe next year's challenge will be the same thing, but no human controllers.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 05 2015, @03:27PM
> assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters
I'll take a human-controlled robot for now. Last thing you need is an AI glitch causing more trouble when you're already in an unsafe situation
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday June 05 2015, @03:35PM
That sounds completely reasonable. How am I supposed to have an angry internet argument with you when you're throwing around completely sane points?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 05 2015, @03:55PM
Here, I'll show you:
Human meatbags are prone to piss-poor decision making and terrible at multitasking. Computers don't glitch, ever. Bit errors should be corrected for by the software, and any other errors are the fault of shitty human meatbag programmers. A robot that works 99% of the time is preferable to a weak and cowardly human scum.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday June 05 2015, @08:03PM
More to the point, if there's a human controller it's not a robot, it's a telefactor. God damn headline based corruption of English.
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