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Man vs. Machine- No Contest!

10/21/2015
By Charles Payne

Consider DRC-Hubo, the robot that just won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robot challenge by doing eight tasks in the shortest amount of time:

1. Get into a standard human vehicle and drive it to a specified location.

2. Get out of the vehicle and travel across rubble.

3. Clear obstacles from a doorway.

4. Open the door, and enter the building.

5. Find a leaking pipe and close the associated valve.

6. Reconnect a hose or cable.

7. Climb a ladder.

8. Grab a tool from the site; break through a concrete wall and exit.

The thing is it took DRC-Hubo 45 minutes to complete the tasks, while many of his rivals couldn’t; one even lost its head after falling during the challenge.  As for the tasks that were completed, one researcher said it took his ten- year-old daughter 10 minutes to pull them off.

So, humans are safe for now, as long as they’re ready to work day or night, break a sweat, and work a forklift.

 

Charles Payne
Wall Street Strategies


 

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