DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals June 5-6

[AlexanderTheOK]

Originally Posted by BenGuy

If you google that, the results are all of very small robots that can do nothing but climb stairs, and their systems are specifically for climbing stairs.

Correction. They are all proofs of concepts of drivebases that can climb stairs. All of these can be enlarged and can have 6DOF arms mounted to them.

Originally Posted by BenGuy

The team in first right now has a tracked + bipedal system btw...

Yes. I am well aware of that, and in fact, acknowledged in my post that it was a very good design decision considering that there are likely other constraints that forced teams to make legged robots.


Edit: This doesn't look very small by the way.