DARPA launches subterranean challenge to improve underground ops
It can seem as though every square inch of planet Earth is colonized, cultivated, or otherwise utilized by humans and our endless variety of projects and needs. Even Earth's orbit is rife with our creations, our presence, and our detritus.
From article, (It can seem as though every square inch of planet Earth is colonized, cultivated, or otherwise utilized by humans and our endless variety of projects and needs. Even Earth’s orbit is rife with our creations, our presence, and our detritus. Of late, Elon Musk and the Boring Company have delved underground to develop the little that is usually left alone — and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has recently joined in.
At the end of December, the agency announced its latest contest, called the Subterranean or “SubT” Challenge. Contest participants will develop systems that could help humans to map, traverse, and search through underground locations that would otherwise be too difficult and dangerous to enter or explore.
According to Timothy Chung, program manager in DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO) in a recent statement, “One of the main limitations facing war fighters and emergency responders in subterranean environments is a lack of situational awareness; we often don’t know what lies beneath us. The DARPA Subterranean Challenge aims to provide previously unimaginable situational awareness capabilities for operations underground.”)
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