Team KAIST won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, so now what?

POMONA, California – A robot is going to save your life or the life of someone you love

A small team of researchers, scientists and engineers from South Korea just proved that this is possible — and they won $2 million in the process.

Their victory wasn't fast or a particularity dramatic one, but Team KAIST’s DRC-Hubo robot slowly and methodically proved that robots could take on the rough and dangerous job of disaster response, going (in a simulated environment) where no human should go.

The students, professors, engineers and coders with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) remotely guided and programmed DRC-Hubo through eight tasks for the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, a competition to develop semiautonomous robots that can help with disaster-relief operations. Read more...