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Aug 14, 2019

Robots compete in DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge to prep for alien life hunt

Posted by in categories: alien life, robotics/AI

This week DARPA kicks off a competition called the Subterranean Challenge, where hordes of robots are unleashed into caves and tunnels to test how well they can autonomously navigate these environments. One team, headed up by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), is entering a crew of bots that could inform future designs of spacefaring robots that explore caves and lava tubes on other planets and moons.

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