{"id":94749,"date":"2019-08-14T00:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T07:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/robots-compete-in-darpas-subterranean-challenge-to-prep-for-alien-life-hunt"},"modified":"2019-08-14T00:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T07:22:28","slug":"robots-compete-in-darpas-subterranean-challenge-to-prep-for-alien-life-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/robots-compete-in-darpas-subterranean-challenge-to-prep-for-alien-life-hunt","title":{"rendered":"Robots compete in DARPA\u2019s Subterranean Challenge to prep for alien life hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/poJLq9TxKt4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week DARPA kicks off a <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/darpa-robotics-challenge-2015-preview\/37450\/\" target=\"_blank\">competition<\/a> 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), is entering a crew of bots that could inform future designs of spacefaring robots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}