Team IHMC is ready for round two
- June 6, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
The robotics team from the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition is ready for round two at the DARPA Robotics Challenge in California.
IHMC’s final run is at about 5:15 p.m.; the final results will come later in the day.
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Team IHMC members get the bugs worked out. Photo credit: IHMC.[/caption]
Will Rabb, communications coordinator at IHMC, said as of now, IHMC, with its robot, Atlas, is in fourth place after all teams made their first run yesterday.
"After a fall, Team IHMC was able to replace part of an arm and a leg, and stayed up through the night getting the bugs worked out. Today’s run should be better," Rabb said.
The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, held June 5-6 in Pomona, Calif., is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It will test 25 teams from around the world in a challenge course designed to emulate a disaster area where humans could not safely go. IHMC’s team will be using the 6-foot-tall Atlas robot, built by Boston Dynamics but with the all-important controlling software designed by IHMC researchers. The winning team will bring home $2 million from DARPA, which will go to further robotics research. The second-place team will win $1 million.You can also go to live.curiositystream.com to see each team’s run Friday and Saturday if you want to watch.
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