*Smiles calmly.*
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, Jared B. Adams, DARPA's chief of communications, explained that the research agency actually made the request last week — they just didn't get a lot of submissions. The request for"university-owned or commercially managed underground urban tunnels and facilities" is for an upcoming challenge.
DARPA hosts a subterranean competition, called the SubT Challenge Urban Circuit, in which teams from around the world test out"new approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments." But finding spaces for competitors to showcase their technologies can be tough. "Complex urban underground infrastructure can present significant challenges for situational awareness in time-sensitive scenarios, such as active combat operations or disaster response," Adams said, adding that the agency turned to Twitter to"help identify potential representative environments where teams may be able to test in advance of the upcoming event."are competing in the physical systems competition and/or a software-only virtual competition, Adams explained.
Earlier this month, the competitors completed the first round, the Tunnel Circuit, in which they tested their robots' ability to"map, identify, and report artifacts along the passages of two Pittsburgh mines." "With them, they brought 20 unmanned aerial vehicles, 64 ground robots, and one autonomous blimp robot named Duckiefloat,"
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