Pomona, California, USA: A South Korean team has won a 3-year U.S. contest to create a robot capable of helping in disaster response conditions that are unsafe for humans. \r\n
Team Kaist of Daejeon took home $2 million in prize money for its DRC-Hubo robot after the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals ended Saturday (June 06) in Pomona, California.The contest by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency started after the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, where workers couldn’t vent hydrogen from the overloaded reactors without enduring excess radiation.The 23 international teams’ robots were timed while navigating eight tasks they’d likely encounter in emergency scenarios.
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