Sunday, December 22, 2013

DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials: Final Results

<p>It's Saturday evening, and mere moments ago, the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials officially ended. We'll have more DRC coverage for you over the next few days, and lots more video, but we wanted to bring you the results of the Trials just as soon as they were announced, which should be any moment now.</p><p>Have a look at our earlier post on events and scoring for a sense of what these numbers mean, but the important bits are that each task was worth a maximum of four points, and time is only a factor if there's a tie. Otherwise, robots were free to use the entire 30 minutes for each task, and they were also free to end a task at any point (or not compete at all). And here are the final scores, just posted by DARPA:</p><p>Now, here's why the scores matter, as far as the teams (and DARPA) are concerned:</p><p>Up to eight teams will move forward with DARPA funding to compete in the DRC Finals in 2014, while other teams will also be welcome to compete using independent sources of funding.</p><p><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/darpa-robotics-challenge-trials-results">Keep reading...</a></p>

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