A DARPA competition to build underground robot teams to assist troops enters its final challenge this week
By Todd South
Sep 20, 04:51 PM
A three-year-long challenge to find ways for robots to explore, navigate, map and do other tasks underground concludes with its final challenge this week.
The final event of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Subterranean Challenge kicks off Tuesday at the Louisville Mega Cavern in Louisville, Kentucky, and teams of civilian researchers are competing to come up with the most useful systems.
The challenge matters to all in uniform whose missions may take them underground.
The tilt toward urban combat in megacities combined with the deep cave systems housing nuclear weapons in North Korea and other hazards in Eastern Europe means a subterranean combat scenario is likely for troops today and in the future.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/09/20/a-darpa-competition-to-build-underground-robot-teams-to-assist-troops-enters-its-final-challenge-this-week/
