DRC-HUBO Runs Linux and It Just Won the DARPA Robotics Challenge

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The DARPA Robotics Challenge is now over, and the competition has been won by a team from South Korea with a robot called DRC-HUBO. It’s not hard to imagine that the robot is actually running a modified Linux distribution.

The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a competition organized by the famous US agency and that brought together robotics teams from all over the world. The end goal was to build a robot that can go into disaster zones and perform some tasks without any help fr… (read more)