DRC Final Standings: KAIST wins - MIT in 6th place

South Korean Team KAIST Wins DARPA
Robotics Challenge With Bipedal Wunderdroid

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"May the best robot win" has been a frequently uttered phrase throughout the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, held this Friday and Saturday at the Fairplex in Pomona, California. After years of research and development, several intense days of preparation at the competition site, a day of rehearsal and two full days of head-to-head competition in front of thousands of spectators, the verdict is in.

1. Taking first place and the $2 million in prize money that goes with it is Team Kaist of Daejeon, Republic of Korea, and its robot DRC-Hubo.
   
2. Coming in second and taking home $1 million is Team IHMC Robotics of Pensacola, Fla., and its robot Running Man.
3. The third place finisher, earning the $500,000 prize, is Tartan Rescue of Pittsburgh, and its robot CHIMP.

South Korean Team KAIST Wins DARPA Robotics Challenge With Bipedal Wunderdroid | TechCrunch

The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals is a tough contest. Designed encourage researchers to create robots that can handle multiple difficult environments and tasks including breaching a door, turning a
valve, and negotiating obstacles, many robots entered but only one won –DRC-HUBO from a joint team that included researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Team KAIST from South Korea.

DRC FINALS TEAM STANDINGS
TEAM	SCORE	TIME
TEAM KAIST	8	44:28
TEAM IHMC ROBOTICS	8	50:26
TARTAN RESCUE	8	55:15
TEAM NIMBRO RESCUE	7	34:00
TEAM ROBOSIMIAN	7	47:59
TEAM MIT	7	50:25
TEAM WPI-CMU	7	56:06
TEAM DRC-HUBO AT UNLV	6	57:41
TEAM TRAC LABS	5	49:00
TEAM AIST-NEDO	5	52:30
TEAM NEDO-JSK	4	58:39
TEAM SNU	4	59:33
TEAM THOR	3	27:47
TEAM HRP2-TOKYO	3	30:06
TEAM ROBOTIS	3	30:23
TEAM VIGIR	3	48:49
TEAM WALK-MAN	2	36:35
TEAM TROOPER	2	42:32
TEAM HECTOR	1	02:44
TEAM VALOR	0	00:00
TEAM AERO	0	00:00
TEAM GRIT	0	00:00
TEAM HKU	0	00:00