Robotics Challenge at the Pomona Fair Grounds

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Greetings Parents and Students,


On June 5th and June 6th,  DARPA is hosting their Robotics Challenge at the Pomona Fair Grounds.  It's the DRC finals!!! Here's a snippet of what's it about.

The DRC is a competition of robot systems and software teams vying to develop robots capable of assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters. It was designed to be extremely difficult. Participating teams, representing some of the most advanced robotics research and development organizations in the world, are collaborating and innovating on a very short timeline to develop the hardware, software, sensors, and human-machine control interfaces that will enable their robots to complete a series of challenge tasks selected by DARPA for their relevance to disaster response.

The DRC Finals will take place from June 5-6, 2015 at Fairplex in Pomona, California. The DRC Finals will require robots to attempt a circuit of consecutive physical tasks, with degraded communications between the robots and their operators; the winning team will receive a $2 million grand prize; DARPA plans to award $1 million to the runner-up and $500,000 to the third-place team.


http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/


YES, it's FREE.  Pay only for parking.  

DBCS Robotics teacher, Ben will be at the ROBOTIS booth.  If you have questions about the Summer Experimental Robotics class, please drop by.

Thank you very much!