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.
Original Submission
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @09:03AM
Science is not necessary to wage a HOLY JIHAD against ISLAM. The only thing Americans need to know is how to OBEY.
(Score: 3, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Monday June 08 2015, @09:06AM
BBC News went with the much more interesting angle of "look at all these robots falling over."
The best one was the one that fell over and then flopped about like a dead fish.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @09:13AM
We need to bring back slavery, then we know for sure our stupid property is suffering when it falls over. Abolition was a mistake. Robots are a dead end. Bring back Slavery, for the Future!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @09:19AM
or maybe more? sure, it hurts to stretch that far but is it worth it?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @09:33AM
Not worth it. To your own tongue, your own cum has no flavor. Better to suck off another man's penis, because even a slight variation in semen chemistry is delicious.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by kaszz on Monday June 08 2015, @12:55PM
Korean Robot Makers Walk Off With $2 Million Prize [usnewsdaily.net] 07ROBOT1-SUB-master675.jpg [nyt.com] (crappy javascript..)
Team KAIST | DRC Finals [theroboticschallenge.org] (lots of interesting pictures)
Jaemi Hubo (KAIST) « PIRE: Humanoids [drexel.edu]
Search tip: "JunHo Oh" Hubo KAIST
Robot quick data:
Built: 2014
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 80 kg
Hardware easy, motion algorithms hard?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday June 08 2015, @01:06PM
I was expecting a story about a Korean Robot had broken in to a bank and walked off with $2 million.
(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.