Japan's startup wins robot challenge created to rescue human

Formed by students, company was acquired by Google.
Company exceeded robots NASA and MIT to earn $ 2 million.

A Japanese startup recently acquired by Google won a robot challenge held in the United States on Saturday (21). For being crowned champion, the Schaft had to defeat the Atlas, an android created by Boston Dynamics, another company bought by Google.
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The competition Projects Agency and Defense Advanced Research (DARPA, its acronym in English) met 16 US teams, Japan and South Korea. The idea is to identify the humanoid better able to act in the rescue of humans.

Robots teams were tested in challenges like to drive, climbing stairs, opening doors, walking on rough terrain, remove objects, punching a wall, close valves and unwinding and winding a hose.

The Schaft was the best in four of eight events, giving it 27 points from 32 possible. That made it seven points ahead of Atlas, developed by Boston Dynamics, but that ran a system of IHMC Robotics, the company that acted in the competition.

Developed by NASA, Robot Valkyrie is 1.9 meters tall, weighs 125 kilos and can go to Mars.
Developed by NASA, Robot Valkyrie has 1.9
meters tall, weighs 125 kilos and can go to
Mars.

The Schaft weighs 95 kg and has a height of 1.48 m. The biped robot was created by students at the University of Tokyo.
But the Atlas is a copy of a number of robots Boston Dynamics. One is the Cheetah (leopard, in Portuguese), able to run at 46.6 kilometers per hour.
Another is the WildCat (wild cat), which reproduces various movements of four-legged animals. But the LS3 acts as a beast of burden.

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) also competed with Atlas but with own modifications.
Since the robot developed by the American Space Agency (NASA), the Valkyrie, soured the last place with other two, Chiron, the Kairos Autonomi, and Mojavaton, students and professors from the University of Mesa, Colorado.

The NASA Androide is 1.9 m tall, weighs 125 kilos and is described as the "superhero robot" by Nicolaus Radford, robot project leader Lyndon Johnson Space Center, NASA.

This was the first competition of its kind that the Valkyrie participated. According to NASA, the development of robots as it can lead to human androids assist in space exploration, as the desired arrival of the man to Mars.