In December Advanced Research Projects Agency U.S. Department of Defense - organization DARPA - conducts the competition Robotics Challenge, allowing teams from different countries show progress in creating robots. According to test results, the winning team receives a cash prize of $ 2 million, with teams receive funding of $ 1 million for operational development of robots for competitions. This year, the project management has decided to complicate the conditions of competition, and to participating teams have time to prepare, race postponed to June next year (June 15-16).
For six additional months robots must move to a fully self-powered - No batteries or generators. Also prohibited to use any props or tethers. A robot must perform a task without a leash to an external power source and without the use of stable channels. Even the wireless. In the new environment the communication channel is artificially interrupted or clogged interference to reduce the data rate. This means that a significant amount of time the robot will have to work on embedded algorithms.
Another complication of the problem will be the test phase. Because of this tournament will be held in one day, and within two days. Secret stage will be evaluated separately. Related Products :
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