![]() ![]() Another was assembled from plywood and hoverboard wheels by the robotics club at the middle school Knoedler’s kids attend. One robot in the team’s fleet is an old security crawler snagged off Craigslist. Next to them, Coordinated Robotics is the scrappy upstart. They have top-of-the-line equipment, ample test facilities, and an army of graduate students they can throw at whatever problems meatspace may present. "The SubT Challenge has attracted giants in autonomous research, including well-funded engineers from Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I profile Kevin Knoedler, a programmer and stay-at-home dad who, along with a scrappy, youthful team, was able to give the biggest robotics labs in the world a run for their money. In the latest issue of WIRED I write about the 'SubT Challenge,' the latest robotics competition from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). ![]()
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