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Woodstock for robots: the Japanese won
Vladimir Pokrovsky subscribe to the authorWoodstock for robots: the Japanese won
The US military agency arranged slow races on a high -speed highway. Fighted on the highway robots-rescuers
Share Share Tweet I recommend 0 1 day agoAt the International Competition of the New Generation Robots, conducted by DARPA-an agency for promising defense exploration developments of the United States, the Americans mainly acted, but the Japanese team of former pioneer Japanese robe of Hiroshiki Inoue won . The winner got a prize of $ 1 million.
The competition was held in Miami on the Homestead-Miami Speedway high-speed highway, where, in particular, NASCAR races are held. The purpose of the event, according to Darpa, is the creation of a robot that could replace a person in the distress area or disaster. In total, there were eight key tasks: driving, crossing bricks, cleaning building garbage, opening the door and passage to it, climbing the stairs, destruction of the concrete panel using the tools created for people, searching and closing the valves, connecting a fire sleeve to the pipe and opening the valve. The Japanese team from the Schaft Hoogle has completed all these tasks, defeating the rest by a wide margin, scoring 27 points out of 32 possible and bypassing the nearest competitor, IHMC Robotics, seven points. Third place was given by Tarten Rescue, developed by the specialists of the University of Carnegie-Mellon, with 18 points, and Mit Mitusetsky Institute managed to score only 16 points. In total, 16 teams participated in the competition.
Despite the fact that the highway was high -speed, all the robots moved slowly, the head of Boston Dynamics Mark Rebert, whose robots were not the best, but the fastest, remained delighted with this competition and said that they mean a turning point throughout the robotechnical industry. “It was a real Woodste for robots,” he said.
DRC Trita is another qualifying stage of the tournament before the DRC FINALS final in December next year, where robots will fight for the main prize of Darpa - two million dollars.
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