DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, June 2015

  • MIT team places sixth at international DARPA Robotics Challenge, MIT News - Link - PDF
  • MIT CSAIL Team Falls Just Short of Winning $2M Robotics Challenge, BostInno - Link - PDF
  • Team MIT’s robot lost the DARPA challenge but won over the crowd, Engadget - Link - PDF
  • MIT, WPI robots outperformed in Calif. contest, Beta Boston - Link - PDF
  • Watch Atlas turn a valve, answer a phone before DARPA Robotics Challenge, Boston Globe - Link - PDF
  • MIT’s humanoid robot goes to robot boot camp, Wired - Link - PDF
  • Man behind Darpa’s robotics challenge: robots will soon learn from each other, The Guardian - Link - PDF
  • At DARPA Challenge, Rescue Robots Show Future Of Disaster Relief, LA Times - Link - PDF
  • Korean Robot Makers Walk Off With $2 Million Prize, NY Times - Link - PDF
  • Relax, the Terminator Is Far Away, NY Times - Link - PDF
  • For Autonomous Robots, The School of Hard Knocks Is In Session, Popular Science - Link - PDF
  • Why Robots and Humans Struggled with DARPA’s Challenge, Tech Review - Link - PDF
  • The DARPA Robotics Challenge Was A Bust, Popular Science - Link - PDF
  • Behind the scenes at the final DARPA Robotics Challenge, The Verge - Link
  • Darpa robotics challenge: South Korea’s humanoid nets team $2m, The Guardian - Link
  • South Korean Team Wins DARPA Robotics Challenge, Time - Link

DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials, December 2013

  • The Obstacle Course Where DARPA Will Test a New Breed of Robot Heroes, 30 Aug 2013, Gizmodo - Link
  • MIT Robotics Team Brings Humanoid Machine To Life For National Competition, 19 Dec 2013, Boston Magazine - Link
  • Disaster robots compete in Darpa’s Florida challenges, 20 Dec 2013, BBC - Link
  • By Sci-Fi Standards, Newest Robots May Disappoint, 20 Dec 2013, New York Times - Link
  • Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Generation of Rescue Robots, 22 Dec 2013, New York Times - Link
  • Google’s Schaft robot wins Darpa rescue challenge, 23 Dec 2013, New York Times - Link

Virtual Robotics Challenge, June 2013

  • Robotics Challenge Offers $2 Million Prize, 3 May 2013, Connecticut Post - Link
  • DARPA Challenges Virtual Robots Before the Real Ones Step In, 7 June 2013, gizmag - Link
  • DARPA Robotics Challenge: The Search for the Perfect Robot Soldier [sic], 10 June 2013, The Guardian - Link
  • Japanese Robots: On DARPA, SCHAFT, and the Peace Constitution (and bad reporting) 13 June 2013, Akihabara News - Link
  • DARPA Unveils Atlas DRC Robot, 12 July 2013, IEEE Spectrum, Link
  • Meet Atlas, the Robot Designed to Save the Day, 12 July 2013, Technology Review - Link
  • DARPA Competitors Develop Robots for Disaster Response, 24 July 2013, American Forces Press Service - Link

Proposal Phase, October 2012

  • In Contest for Rescue Robots, DARPA Offers $2 Million Prize, 24 Oct. 2012, New York Times - Link
  • A Contest To Build A Disaster-Ready Robot, 26 Oct. 2012, NPR - Link
  • At Drexel, Building a Robot for Nuclear Worries, 27 Nov. 2012, Seattle PI - Link
  • Making Robots Mimic the Human Hand, 29 Mar. 2013, NY Times - Link

DRC artists rendition