Today kicks off the two - daylight mechanolympics of theDARPA Robotics Challenge Trials at Homestead Miami Speedway . With team from around the earth competing in eight tasks , only one will take home the purse . Just a few hr in — watch live here — it ’s still any robot ’s biz . We ’ve got your betting odds right here , so you’re able to reckon on the future .
There are 17 competition - funded teams and a smattering of independents contend today , but we ’re concentre on the frontrunners so far . If a dark horse emerges , we ’ll be sure to update our betting odds .
WPI Robotics Engineering C Squad , WRECS ( 4/1 ): The first squad to get its hand on an Atlas bot in July , the student - found WRECS team is young . That could give them the border in energy and stamina , or their relative inexperience could hinder them . The six - pes - tall , 330 lb Atlas has legendary residuum and nimbleness , making it a favorite for walking and climb challenge , but WRECS is n’t the only team taking advantage of Atlas ’s strengths .
Trooper ( 2/1 ): With a Boston Dynamics Atlas and brainpower from Lockheed Martin , UPenn and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , TROOPER has the facility and the staff to bewilder .
Traclabs ( 3/1 ): The scrappy underdog of the DARPA Challenge , TRACLabs is swear on potent fundamentals , perfecting the dewy-eyed movements that could help their Atlas clinch the triumph .
MIT ( 3/1 ): put together a aspiration squad from all corner of their campus , Team MIT has the brainpower , and their Atlas bot has the muscle .
Schaft ( 6/1 ): The broad - shouldered , squat HRP-2 biped only measure four - ft - ten , but at 209 pound and with a 51 - INCH wingspan , Schaft could have fleet - footed litheness on its side .
Kaist ( 4/1 ): The team from Korea has competitive disembodied spirit and a 6 - foot , 10 - inch DRC - Hubo bipedal conscientious objector - developed with Drexel University . Kaist ’s special teams education used seven dissimilar DRC - Hubo bots , each optimized to a individual challenge labor . The result were combined in a single bot than can walk for over 2 hour , do pushups , and operate hand putz . A true utility program participant .
NASA JSC Team Valkyrie ( 7/1 ): Johnson Space Center has a 20 - year legacy in humanoid robot development , and the six - foot - two , 286 lb Valkyrie , “ invigorate by a distaff first answerer wearing body armour ” bring 44 degrees of American exemption to the scrap . Team Valkyrie is playing the long game , claiming they ’re focus on next yr ’s final challenge rather than triumph today . Is it sandbagging ? We ’ll see .
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