Jul 18, 2018
DARPA Wants Your Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics
DARPA Wants Your Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics
Image: DARPA
The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a showcase for how very large, very expensive robots could potentially be useful in disaster recovery and high-risk environments. Humanoids are particularly capable in some very specific situations, but the rest of the time, they’re probably overkill, and using smaller, cheaper, more specialized robots is much more efficient. This is especially…
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