Darpa's Next Challenge? A Grueling Underground Journey
Darpa's Next Challenge? A Grueling Underground Journey
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 15, 20187m 6s
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Show Notes
I can’t sit here and guarantee you a robot won’t take your job one day—capitalism kind of has a thing for automation. What I can tell you is that in the near future, robots will be doing jobs that no one wants to do. For instance, risking your life doing rescue operations after mining disasters. Which is why for its next robotics competition, Darpa is going underground, with the Darpa Subterranean Challenge.
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