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NASA’s RoboSimian And Surrogate Robots
RoboSimian and Surrogate are robots that were designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Credit: JPL-Caltech
Since they were first announced in 2012, NASA has been a major contender in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). This competition – which involves robots navigating obstacle courses using tools and vehicles – was first conceived by DARPA to see just how capable robots could be at handling disaster response.
The Finals for this challenge will be taking place on June 5th and 6th, 2015, at Fairplex in Pomona, California. And after making it this far with their RoboSimian design, NASA was faced with a difficult question. Should their robotic primate continue to represent them, or should that honor go to their recently unveiled Surrogate robot?
As the saying goes “you dance with the one who brung ya.” In short, NASA has decided to stick with RoboSimian as they advance into the final round of obstacles and tests in their bid to win the DRC and the $2 million prize.(…)
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/117229/nasas-robosimian-and-surrogate-robots/
