Participation in DRC world finals

June 10, 2015

Doug Bowman and Felipe Bacim, participated in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals as part of team ViGIR, which happened in Pomona, CA on June 5 and 6, 2015. Team ViGIR was headed by Blacksburg-based tech firm TORC Robotics and the German-based Technische Universitat Darmstadt with assistance from the Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science and competed for $2 million and the prestige of controlling a robot to assist human first-responders in dangerous response efforts. More information can be found here.