South Korean team wins $2m at the DARPA Robotics Challenge

[HEXUS]

Triumphed in a disaster-response challenge, pitted against 23 competitors.

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[Praetorian66]

Sweet, now give it a machine gun and send it to fight ISIS.

[HSK]

Intresting stuff. It moves around very cautiously...unlike these guys though:-

[mikerr]

Lots fell over as above, but look at the only one that got up again after falling:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSMIoTdaVo0
0:51 falls
1:12 gets up again

(Came 3rd overall)

[Rapp]

someone really needs to edit that video so they are all drinking and the one at the end is about to have breathalyser test

[theleader]

With all these robots seeming to have either a blue screen attack or just falling over etc. it looks like the human race is safe for seeable future!

[mikerr]

Funny fail / falls aside - they didn't all fall and the main thing is 3 of them fully completed the course

Here's the full winning run:


Also good to see the Boston Dynamics Atlas robots beaten.

[Luke7]

The blooper reel contains footage of the robots using QWOP controls.