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December 21st, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
December 20, 2013
This weekend the DARPA Robotic Challenge contestants will congregate in Miami, Florida to bring together some of the most incredible humanoid and animal-like robots ever built under the commission of the US government.
At the Homestead Miami Speedway, these robots will be challenged to a “grueling Olympics” wherein the “competitors will have to walk across uneven terrain, climb ladders and even drive a car.”
Seventeen teams will battle it out against one another to decide who wins the $2 million prize and the chance to ensure robotics contracts with the military arm of the federal government.
DARPA is looking “at robotic tech that can mitigate the extent of a disaster during the first hours and days, or while the disaster is still unfolding.”
Thor, an entry from RoMeLa researchers, was inspired by the disaster at Fukushima to build an autonomous robot that could be deployed to “dangerous situations so that humans don’t have to risk their lives.”
Gill Pratt, program manager explained : “We know the robots are slow and unsteady at this point — they’re much like a one-year-old human in terms of locomotion and grasping abilities and much farther behind that in brainpower. The robots are taking ‘baby steps’ this year, but their performance will establish a reference point for what we can expect from the teams that return next year for the DRC Finals. We want that event to be much more difficult and force the robots to demonstrate useful capabilities in realistic disaster scenarios.”
DARPA has outline tasks those entries must achieve to win the prize.
• Drive a utility vehicle along a pylon-lined course
• Cross a terrain that features ramps, steps and unfastened blocks
• Climb an 8ft-high (2.4m) ladder
• Remove debris blocking a doorway
• Pull open a lever-handled door
• Cut a triangular shape in a wall using a cordless drill
• Close three air valves, each controlled by a different-sized wheel or lever
• Unreel a hose and then screw its nozzle into a wall connector
Tom Strat, deputy program manager for the 2002 DARPA Grand Challenge, commented : “One of the best ways to motivate engineers is to tell them that there’s something that can’t be done. And what you saw today was people taking on that challenge and saying, Nah, it’s not impossible, I’m gonna try. Even though nobody got more than about 5 percent of the way through the course, this has made these engineers even more determined.”
This contest was won by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who developed the first functional self-driving car controlled completely by an autonomous computer.
Source Article from http://www.occupycorporatism.com/darpa-holds-robot-gladiator-disaster-games/
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