Darpa robotics challenge: South Korea's humanoid nets team $2m
by Sam Thielman in Pomona, California from Technology | The Guardian on (#AKSJ)
US defense department awards prizes in event that featured robots built and piloted with funding from sources that included Amazon and Nasa
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On Saturday evening, with their sleek humanoid robot DRC-Hubo, a team of roboticists and engineers from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Korea, won $2m from the R&D arm of the US defense department, Darpa, by outperforming 24 other robots in a simulated nuclear reactor.
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