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Hear from the winning teams and the DARPA program manager and go deep inside the Subterranean Finals Course to understand the future of robot autonomy

In the making for several months now, DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge finals took place at the Louisville, Kentucky Mega Cavern this month, awarding the winners a total of $5 million and the chance to prove more or less autonomous robots can indeed sneak underground.

autoevolution 22 May 2021, 8:03 UTC · by In several places around this world, under the watchful eye of an organization called DARPA, people are working on creating robots that can operate underground, performing whatever task their human masters have in mind. If that wasn’t scary enough in itself, one of the teams working on this calls its project CERBERUS. 1 photo You see, Cerberus is the name, in Greek mythology, of a dog with multiple heads that guards the doors to Hell. Guards as in it may allow people in, but most certainly won’t allow people out. Now, in the case of these ro...

autoevolution 8 May 2021, 7:47 UTC · by There is absolutely no doubt that at some point in our future sentient robots will become a permanent part of our lives. We already see the early stages of what will eventually become a human-made life form, and for some that’s reassuring, while for others pretty damn frightening. 1 photo More or less intelligent drones are currently flying in our skies, other types of robots are learning to work as teams, and there are organizations out there who are also trying to make them capable of operating underground. One of the ones doing this is, of c...