DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) selected Open Robotics University's "Rescue Response Team" to participate in 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge. 1st Prize is $2,000,000.00. Top notch FIRST mentors, coaches, and students are invited to join its team. Since Open Robotics University is an open source university, individuals not enrolled in the university or not members of faculty can join their team to design software and robot for the competition. You may download the simulator to be used to design the robot at:
http://gazebosim.org/wiki/InstallDRC Also visit DARPA website for technical information, discussion forum, and rules for the competition at:
http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/about.php . If you plan to join their team, please post a message here. You may visit their website at:
http://www.openroboticsuniversity.net/ . The university president’s email is
osem@openroboticsuniversity.net. Contact Phone number is 757-905-7896.