DARPA robotics challenge results and at the end of 2014 robots should demonstrate the ability to autonomously carry out simple commands

The DARPA robotics challenge finals had the following top five finishers

1. SCHAFT from Japan, owned by Google.
2. Atlas-Ian from Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition it developed software for Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS robot.
3. CMU’s Tartan Rescue
4. A team from MIT
5. NASA JPL’s RoboSimian


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