{"id":94898,"date":"2019-08-17T17:14:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T00:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/nasa-robots-to-compete-in-underground-challenge-in-mining-tunnels"},"modified":"2019-08-17T17:14:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T00:14:56","slug":"nasa-robots-to-compete-in-underground-challenge-in-mining-tunnels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/nasa-robots-to-compete-in-underground-challenge-in-mining-tunnels","title":{"rendered":"NASA Robots to Compete in Underground Challenge in Mining Tunnels"},"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>Robots are about to go underground \u2014 for a competition anyways.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U.S. Department of Defense dedicated to developing new emerging technologies, is holding a challenge intended to develop technology for first responders and the military to map, navigate, and search underground. But the technology developed for the competition could also be used in future NASA missions to caves and lava tubes on other planets.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subtchallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DARPA Subterranean Challenge Systems Competition<\/a> will be held August 15 \u2013 22 in mining tunnels under Pittsburgh, and among the robots competing will be an entry from a team led by NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that features wheeled rovers, drones, and climbing robots that can rise on pinball-flipper-shaped treads to scale obstacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots are about to go underground \u2014 for a competition anyways. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U.S. Department of Defense dedicated to developing new emerging technologies, is holding a challenge intended to develop technology for first responders and the military to map, navigate, and search underground. But the technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94898","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}