Carnegie Mellon University has announced that its Team Explorer, formed in conjunction with Oregon State University, has won the initial phase of DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge, in which competitors design and deploy robots to autonomously map and search underground mines.
The eight-day event took place in National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health research mines in South Park Township, Pennsylvania. The robots searched for objects such as simulated human survivors in a mine disaster scenario. During its two best runs, Team Explorer managed to detect and pinpoint 25 of...
