Media Coverage

Team JPL: DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals

S. Karumanchi, K. Edelberg, I. Baldwin, J. Nash, B. Satzinger, J. Reid, C. Lau, C. Bergh, J. Leichty, K. Carpenter, M. Shekels, M. Gildner, D. Newill-Smith, J. Carlton, J. Koehler, T. Dobreva, M. Frost, P. Hebert, J. Borders, J. Ma, B. Douillard, K. Shankar, K. Byl, J. Burdick, P. Backes and B. Kennedy, "Team RoboSimian: Semi-autonomous Mobile Manipulation at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals", Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals (submitted and awaiting review), 2016.

BBC: How safe can artificial intelligence be?
CNN: Robots, drones and heart-detectors: How disaster technology is saving lives
JPL News: RoboSimian Drives, Walks and Drills in Robotics Finals
LOS ANGELES TIMES: At DARPA Challenge, Rescue Robots Show Future of Disaster Relief
CALTECH E&S: RoboSimian to the Rescue
DARPA PRESS RELEASE: Robots Elicit Cheers, Gasps and Groans
IEEE Spectrum: DARPA Robotics Challenge: Amazing Moments, Lessons Learned, and What's Next
IEEE Spectrum: DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: What We Learned on Day 1
DARPA PRESS RELEASE: Twenty-five Teams From around the World to Participate in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals
IEEE Spectrum: RoboSimian Beats Out Surrogate for JPL's DRC Finals Spot
JPL News: Two Robots, One Challenge, Endless Possibility
CNN: NASA designs ape-like robot for disasters
FOX News: NASA's ape-like RoboSimian set for DARPA robot challenge

Team MIT: Darpa Robotics Challenge Trials & Virtual Robotics Challenge

M. Fallon, S. Kuindersma, S. Karumanchi, M. Antone, T. Schneider, H. Dai, C. Perez-D’Arpino, R. Deits, M. DiCicco, D. Fourie, T. Koolen, P. Marion, M. Posa, A. Valenzuela, P. Kuan-Ting Yu, J. A. Shah, K. Iagnemma, R. Tedrake, S. Teller, "An Architecture for Online Affordance-based Perception and Whole-body Planning", Journal of Field Robotics (JFR) (Special Issue on DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials), 2014.

NEW YORK TIMES: A woodstock for robots
NEW YORK TIMES: Japanese team dominates competition to create rescue robots
NEW SCIENTIST: Tough robo-challenge casts robots as rescuers
BOSTON GLOBE: Teams vying to give brawny robot a brain
TIME TECH: MIT’s Human-Size Robot Unboxing Puts All Other Unboxings to Shame
MIT NEWS: Team MIT completes first hurdle in DARPA Robotics Challenge [also in CSAIL News]
DARPA PRESS RELEASE: Members Of Top Nine Software Teams Move Forward From DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge
NEW YORK TIMES: Seeking Robots to Go Where First Responders Can’t
NEW YORK TIMES: In Contest for Rescue Robots, Darpa Offers $2 Million Prize

Semi-autonomous Driving

S.J. Anderson, S. Karumanchi , K. Iagnemma, “Constraint-Based Planning and Control for Safe, Semi-Autonomous Control of Vehicles”, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, June 2012, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.