It was a “Woodstock for robots,” said Boston Dynamics’ Marc Raibert, as sixteen teams from around the world came together at Florida’s Homestead Miami Speedway, December 20–21, 2013 to participate in eight demanding tasks in DARPA’s Robotics Challenge Trials.
And the winner was … SCHAFT from Japan, owned by Google. Atlas-Ian from Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition placed second; it developed software for Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS robot. CMU’s Tartan Rescue came in at third place. A team from MIT and NASA JPL’s RoboSimian placed fourth an fifth.
