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THOR and THOR-OP and the DARPA DRC Challange

2012-11-02T12:13:36+01:00

http://theroboticschallenge.org
It is funded with 6m$ from DARPA
Team:
12 executives
1 programmer
1 "intern"

taxpayer's money at work

Statistics: Posted by limor — Fri Nov 02, 2012 12:13 pm

THOR and THOR-OP and the DARPA DRC Challange

2012-11-01T20:58:21+01:00

DRC is the most exciting thing that happened in robotics the past few years!

It is literally history in the making.

The efficiency of the money is questionable but otherwise it is a blessed effort. We should cover here what is going on there so that more people can appreciate it.

Here are some of the groups that received funding, showing off their tricks

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Statistics: Posted by limor — Thu Nov 01, 2012 8:58 pm

THOR and THOR-OP and the DARPA DRC Challange

2012-10-25T21:52:56+01:00

Lots of cool things where talked about yesterday!!

http://mike-ibioloid.blogspot.com/2012/ ... a-drc.html

videos of the DRC conference.

http://mike-ibioloid.blogspot.com/2012/ ... ynote.html

http://mike-ibioloid.blogspot.com/2012/ ... racka.html

http://mike-ibioloid.blogspot.com/2012/ ... ack-b.html

http://mike-ibioloid.blogspot.com/2012/ ... g-q-a.html

overview:

http://mike-ibioloid.blogspot.com/2012/ ... lenge.html

DARPA website:

http://theroboticschallenge.org/about.php

http://theroboticschallenge.org/competition.php

Open source robot control software that is free!:

http://gazebosim.org/wiki/InstallDRC

http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/TTO/Progr ... lenge.aspx

Lots of cool stuff to look at!

THOR-OP looks very interesting to me. It is going to be a open hardware and software project!

Statistics: Posted by Gort — Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:52 pm