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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Deep below the Louisville, Ky., DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment.

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12 Robotics Teams Will Hunt For (Virtual) Subterranean Artifacts

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Last week, DARPA announced the twelve teams who will be competing in the Virtual Track of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Finals , scheduled to take place in September in Louisville , KY. The robots and the environment may be virtual, but the prize money is very real, with $1.5

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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This week, we're at the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge Finals in Louisville KY, where more than two dozen Systems Track and Virtual Track teams will compete for millions of dollars in prize money and being able to say "we won a DARPA challenge," which is of course priceless. This is it! Team CERBERUS. Team Coordinated Robotics. Oke Onwuka.

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

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We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): Adapted to the Spirit as an optional payload module, Exyn's industry-leading autonomous software, ExynAI, provides unprecedented 3D LIDAR mapping in GPS-denied environments.

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Video Friday: Constant Gardener

Cars That Think

We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): Adapted to the Spirit as an optional payload module, Exyn's industry-leading autonomous software, ExynAI, provides unprecedented 3D LIDAR mapping in GPS-denied environments.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By

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