Qualify for entry into the #SubTChallenge Virtual Competition, where $1.5 million in prizes is at stake! Learn more at the SubT Virtual Portal. We look forward to seeing your solutions for finding artifacts in the underground world. subtchallenge.world/home

Dr. Stefanie Tompkins takes the reins today as 23rd director of DARPA. Since Feb 2018, Tompkins has been the VP for research and tech transfer at Colorado School of Mines, and was at DARPA from 2007-2017. Dr. Peter Highnam, the recent acting director, will continue on as deputy director.

Robots competing in DARPA's SubTChallenge must work together to overcome degraded communications, obstacles, and dynamic conditions – like fog – while racing the clock to search for various items and traverse between tunnel, urban, and cave environments. subtchallenge.world/home

DARPA Prepares for the Subterranean Challenge Final ift.tt/31Yu6KQ

All DARPA #SubTChallenge Finals teams are set! A new slate of #virtual #robots join real ones in last minute prep for a September 21-24 showdown, with $5-million in #prizes and a chance to make #underground search and #rescue history on the line. darpa.mil/news-events/20…

12 teams competed in the Virtual Competition Preliminary Round of the #SubTChallenge Final Event using 75 simulated #robots. Tune in to see who wins on Sept 21-24!

The subterranean stage is being set for the DARPA @SubTChallenge Final Event at Louisville’s Mega Cavern. The event is the culmination of a vision to revolutionize search and rescue using #robots in #underground domains. Tune in Sept 21-24 on SubTV: subtchallenge.com/SubTv.html

Three years, three prior Circuit Events, and it all comes down to the DARPA #SubTChallenge Final Event September 21-24. Join us on a short tour on the (underground) road to the SubT Challenge!youtube.com/playlist?list=…

It is the DARPA #SubTChallenge this week! Check out the event website and YouTube channel to learn how you can watch the event. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

I'll be at the DARPA #SubTChallenge all week! Will have details on systems track teams and how to watch the competition over the next day or two. And if you're here in Louisville, SHOW ME YOUR ROBOTS

All #SubTChallenge teams have been to the course staging area and taken a peek into the entrance. Their #robots also got a feel for the starting gate, and a look over by onsite handlers. Today is go time! Preview the Final Event on SubTv at 2:00PM ET. subtchallenge.com/SubTv.html

It's all come down to this. After three years, 8 Systems teams and 12 Virtual teams will revolutionize how we operate in underground domains. #subtchallenge #Robotics

The subterranean stage is set for the DARPA #SubTChallenge Final Event at Louisville’s Mega Cavern. The event is the culmination of a vision to revolutionize search and rescue using #robots in #underground domains. Tune in Sept 21-24 on SubTv: subtchallenge.com/Subtv.html

DARPA’s #SubTChallenge Finals has winners! CERBERUS SubT and their #robots mastered the Mega Caverns course and Dynamo excelled in the virtual world. $5 million in prize money was at stake. More at: darpa.mil/news-events/20…

Just to reiterate this: CSIRORobotics map of the #SubTChallenge course (created by autonomous robots in under an hour) deviated from DARPA's ground-truth map (created by professional human surveyors over many days) by less than 1%.

See Inside DARPA's Incredible Subterranean Finals Course ift.tt/3AdktXh

We must admit: DARPA made the most impressive environment we have seen! #SubTChallenge spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-subt-fin…

Teams of #unmanned aerial and ground vehicles swarmed a mock city in the last of six experiments for the OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program, which envisions coordinating hundreds of #robots for missions in urban areas. ow.ly/3plq50H8bza

Discover how #robots are exploring subterranean worlds! W/ Navinda Kottege , Kostas Alexis, Ali Agha, Sean Humbert, Tim Chung and X ARCHIVE - @ThisisLJRich Insta - find me! #RobotsforGood #AIforGood x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

We just posted the third installment of our series on our role in the DARPA #SubT Challenge. This post covers all the open-source plug-ins we developed for Gazebo Simulator under SubT. openrobotics.org/blog/2022/2/3/…