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Tag Archives: DARPA Robotics Challenge
DARPA Robotics Challenge showcases emotional highs and lows, in addition to the marvels of science.
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Posted in Articles, Featured, Robots
Tagged DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, robot
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Robots are cool, but they can also be life savers by relieving troops from doing dirty and dangerous work.
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Posted in Articles, Featured, Robots
Tagged DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, robot
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Why the Robotics Challenge? The job at DARPA is to push the limits of the possible!
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Tagged DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, robot
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Could you do this in an hour? For the first time in the history of robotics, robots can!
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Tagged DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, robot
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With 3.5 million dollars in prizes at stake, the DARPA Robotics Challenge is heating up. With only months left, this is the final countdown…and these are the final few.
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Posted in Articles, Challenge, Featured, Robots
Tagged armed with science, Captain Picard, DARPA Robotics Challenge, disaster response, dod robots, DOD Science, dod tech, DRC Expo, final robot countdown, Gill Pratt, half human, half robot, Jean-Luc Picard, Jessica L. Tozer, Jessica Tozer, robot challenge, robotics, robots, science-fiction, Star Trek, Unmanned Aerial Systems
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Eight organizations get the thumbs up to develop real-world technologies that would improve prostheses’ effectiveness and amputees’ quality of life.
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Posted in Articles, Engineering, Technology
Tagged advanced prosthetic limbs, artificial arms, DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, DARPA Robotics Challenge Simulator, Food and Drug Administration, Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces, HAPTIX, National Institutes of Health, RE-NET, Reliable Neural-Interface Technology, Revolutionizing Prosthetics, sensory feedback, technologies, the Department of Veterans Affairs, upper-limb prostheses, validating technologies, virtual testing environment, White House brain initiative
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The Atlas robot was redesigned with the goal of improving power efficiency to better support battery operation. Approximately 75 percent of the robot was rebuilt!
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Posted in Articles, Robots, Technology
Tagged $3.5 million, 3.7-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack, armed with science, DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, DARPA Unplugged, Department of Defense, disaster zone, dod robots, DRC, fall arrestors, Gill Pratt, human-supervised robot technology, more demanding DRC Finals, power cords, program manager for the DRC, robots, robots in the DoD, secure wireless network
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OFF THE WIRE: The DARPA Robotics Challenge is putting these robots to the ultimate test. Will they be able to go the (literal and figurative) distance?
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Posted in Articles, DoDLive Science, Featured, Robots
Tagged 2013 DRC Trials, armed with science, ATLAS, Atlas-Ian, CHIMP, Cylons, DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, dod robots, DOD Science, Dr. Noonien Soong, DRC-HUBO, Florian, Gill Pratt, HELIOS, Hercules, Here Come the ROBOTS, I, I Robot, Issac Asimov, Jessica L. Tozer, Jessica Tozer, Mr. Data, RoboSimian, robot, robots, Skynet, Star Trek, THOR, THOR-OP, WARNER
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