The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's third and final challenge among 24 or so U.S. and international human-robot teams will take place in California next June, ending with a $2 million prize and robots that for the first time may be capable of helping first responders save lives when a disaster strikes anywhere in the world.
The main goal of the DARPA Robotics Challenge program is to develop ground- robotics capabilities for executing complex tasks in the dangerous, degraded human-engineered environments created when disasters strike cities.