The two day DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials 2013 officially ended Saturday, December 21 and here are the results.

DARPA Trials 2013

L Hetherington for | RoboticsTomorrow

The two day DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials 2013 officially ended Saturday, December 21 and here are the results:

SCHAFT (introduction video) 27
IHMC ROBOTICS (intro video) 20
TARTAN RESCUE (intro video) 18
MIT (intro video) 16
ROBOSIMIAN (intro video) 14
TRACLABS (intro video) 11
WRECS (intro video) 11
TROOPER (intro video) 9
THOR (intro video) 8
VIGIR (intro video) 8
KAIST (intro video) 8
HKU (intro video) 3
DRC-HUBO (intro video) 3
CHIRON (intro video) 0
NASA-JSC (intro video) 0
MOJAVATON (intro video) 0

 

The Tasks

 

Here are the archived broadcasts for both days:

 

The DRC Finals will occur at the end of 2014 and will require robots to attempt a circuit of consecutive physical tasks, with degraded communications between the robots and their operators; the winning team will receive a $2 million prize.

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