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The Subterranean (SubT) Challenge seeks to better equip warfighters and first responders to explore uncharted underground environments that are too dangerous, dark, or deep to risk human lives.
Participating teams will deploy autonomous systems to map, navigate, and search underground tunnel, urban, and cave spaces.
- Systems teams’ physical robots will need to quickly navigate unfamiliar underground environments in search of common items including backpacks, cell phones, trapped survivors, and even invisible gas.
- Virtual Competition teams submitted autonomy software solutions for exploring simulated underground worlds in search of similar items and their runs will be broadcast in tandem with the Systems Competition.
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