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DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

by abhiminator on 4/25/22, 8:36 PM with 8 comments

  • by nomilk on 4/27/22, 9:20 AM

    > This point cloud assembled by Team CSIRO Data61 shows a robotic view of nearly the entire SubT course, with each dot in the cloud representing a point in 3D space measured by a sensor on a robot. Team CSIRO’s point cloud differed from DARPA’s official map by less than 1 percent

    https://i.imgur.com/1Mi9YwA.png

  • by tastyfreeze on 4/27/22, 4:24 AM

    First responders or... hunter killers.

    Seriously though, impressive display by the teams. Someday in the future I will be able to sit outside an abandoned mine drinking coffee while the robots map it all out in 3d.

  • by theossuary on 4/27/22, 3:42 AM

    They talk a lot about the mapping system they have developed in the interview, I wonder if there's any more information about it available? I can only imagine what'll be possible when technology like that is availabile more freely
  • by farseer on 4/27/22, 8:37 AM

    Wouldn't a miniature drone swarm be more accessible and quicker I wonder? Battery time would be an issue I understand but the mapping would also be quicker, in less than 30 minutes perhaps.
  • by dmead on 4/27/22, 5:19 AM

    kinda like the floating orb robots from prometheus.
  • by JaimeThompson on 4/25/22, 10:55 PM

    Very impressive.