[ExI] darpa robot olympics

[spike]

Anyone else following the DARPA robot Olympics this weekend?

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgt6FPWU2Lc

 

The droids need to drive a vehicle a short distance, open a door, open a
valve, pick up a hand tool and cut a hole in a wall.  The great grandfathers
of C3PO have not been all that impressive to watch.  We will not be seeing
robot pole vaulting anytime soon.  

 

However, I was at the first DARPA challenge for self driving cars.  It
didn't take long to go from that dismal failure to the Google cars.

 

Fun fails:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_QPGcjrh0

 

spike

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