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A team of roboticists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology claimed a $2 million prize on Saturday that was offered by a Pentagon research agency for developing a mobile robot capable of operating in hazardous environments.
Twenty-five teams of university and corporate roboticists competed for the prize, which was first proposed in 2012 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The robots were graded on their ability to complete eight tasks, including driving a vehicle, opening a door, operating a portable drill, turning a valve and climbing stairs, all in the space of an hour.
The Korean victory is a validation of the work of JunHo Oh, the designer of the Hubo family of humanoid robots that he has developed since 2002. The winning Hubo is a clever machine that can kneel and drive on wheels in addition to walking.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @07:38PM
Someone thinks they 'won' something and they feel better about themselves for winning.
Meanwhile, many many people worked on something similar, with better ideas, better use of technology, invented new methods and so on. And the NSA and affiliates stole all those detailed plans and passed them to their Israeli masters.
So DARPA (and others) get complete knowledge of all the projects that participated and partial data on those that did try but could not participate for some reason. This makes their jobs so much easier. Get someone else to do your research for you. Then pat them on the head for being a nice puppy and give them a biscuit.
Also most work is done by individuals and small groups (not big governments). Governments therefore have to rely on normal innocent people to make death-making machines for them so they can suppress these same subjects better and more efficiently than yesterday.