Late Nights, Cool Hacks, and More Stories From the DARPA SubT Urban Circuit

For the past two weeks, teams of robots (and their humans) have been exploring an unfinished nuclear power plant in Washington State as part of DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge. The SubT Challenge consists of three separate circuits, each representing a distinct underground environment: tunnel systems, urban underground, and cave networks. The Urban Circuit portion of the challenge ended last Thursday, and DARPA live streamed all of the course runs and put together some great video recaps of the competition itself. But that footage represents just a small portion of what actually went on at the challenge, as teams raced to implement fixes and improvements in hardware and software in between runs, often staying up all night in weird places trying to get their robots to work better (or work at all). We visited the SubT Urban Challenge during the official media day last week, and also spent some time off-site with the Continue reading Late Nights, Cool Hacks, and More Stories From the DARPA SubT Urban Circuit