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Robotics

Exploring QLD caves autonomously with our robot fleet

While the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Subt-T Challenge might be postponed because of COVID-19, CSIRO’s Data61 Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group undertook a home-grown challenge of their own at the Chillagoe-Mungana Caves in North Queensland recently.

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Q&A with the team behind the award-winning PaintCloud

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D61 robots navigate nuclear power plant in international challenge

Small passages, sharp turns, stairs, large drops and steep climbs – these are some of the obstacles CSIRO’s Data61 robotics team faced in DARPA’s (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) latest challenge, with the team placing a well-earned fourth. Held this year in Washington, the second circuit of the challenge, the Urban Circuit, required participants to navigate an abandoned nuclear...

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CSIRO’s Data61 SubT team at the DARPA’s Tunnel Circuit event

Data61’s SubT team took part in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Event in Pittsburgh, USA on the 15th August. Just before the team took off to the US, we caught up with Fred Pauling, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group Leader, Data61. A squad of five autonomous robots and our SubT...