POMONA, Calif., June 8 (UPI) -- A robot from South Korea has won top honors in the two-day finals of a robotics challenge held by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The robot, called Hubo, beat out 22 competitors from around the world in the finals, which featured robots performing eight disaster-related tasks in an hour under their own on-board power and with severely degraded communications between the robot and its operator.