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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...