Robotics Trends

Virginia Tech Team to Build Battlefield Robots for 2010 Competition A team of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students from Virginia Tech’s Virginia Center for Autonomous Systems in building a team battle-ready robots as part of an international war games challenge. The roving, walking robotic soldiers of the “Terminator” films are becoming less sci-fi, and more certain future every day. Now, a team of robotics researchers from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering will build a team of fully autonomous cooperative battle-ready robots as part of a 2010 international war games challenge that could spur real-life battle bots. The 2010 Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC) (http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/MAGIC2010/) tasks teams with building squads of fully autonomous ground robots that will coordinate, plan, and execute a series of timed tasks including hunting objects, classifying and responding to simulated threats,… View this post
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