Try, Robot: Darpa contest sends new humanoids into 'nuclear reactor'

At an event that combines the feel of a trade fair with a Mythbusters episode, robots compete in navigating simulation of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant

Robots are terrible drivers.

The one that had just navigated a smooth stretch of road a few hundred feet long had taken 15 minutes to do so, and it didn't really fit behind the wheel of the little red chrome four-wheeler, a sort of all-terrain golf cart called a Polaris Ranger. Instead, the robot had wedged itself across two seats and had to be winched out of the car with a chain hanging from a pulley system at the top of a big rolling frame. It had also had a hard time with the turns.