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New York Times: A robotics team from Korea has won the $2 million first-place prize offered by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the final competition of its Robotics Challenge. The challenge was launched in 2012, following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Twenty-three international teams competed, creating robots designed for disaster recovery work. Each robot had to complete eight tasks, including driving a vehicle, operating a drill, turning valves, and climbing stairs. Despite advances in the technology, current robot designs are still far from being autonomous; those in the competition were controlled remotely and wirelessly by human operators. US teams won the second- and third-place prizes.
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Korean team takes top prize in US-sponsored robotics challenge Free
8 June 2015