Recording: DARPA Competition Drives Autonomous Exploration

Watch this webinar to learn how placing second in the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge allowed Emesent to advance their technology’s autonomous capabilities in exploration and mapping in underground environments. Dr Farid Kendoul, Emesent CTO, Co Founder, and Emesent lead for the CSIROs’s Data61 – Emesent – Georgia Tech team, will talk about his experience in the competition and how these new technologies will help people in the future. DARPA’s (the United States Government Defence Advanced Research Project Agency) Subterranean Challenge is a competition designed to produce robot fleets that can autonomously traverse dangerous GPS-denied areas and obtain a situational awareness before humans are required to enter. After years of competition and three rounds, the CSIROs’s Data61 – Emesent – Georgia Tech team came second, in a nail-biting tie-breaker after scoring equal points with the winner.