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Over the last year, ten teams from around the world have been participating in the DARPA Subterranean challenges. These challenges are designed to test drones and robots on how they perform in hazardous physical environments where humans can’t access safely. By participating in these challenges, these teams hope to find a solution that will assist emergency first responders to help find survivors more quickly.

Microsoft is collaborating with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Oregon State University to compete in the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) challenges, collectively named Team Explorer. The DARPA Subterranean Urban challenge included two different courses that were designed to represent complex urban underground infrastructures. The teams get one hour to have their robots or drones explore a large area to try and find as many objects as they can.

The challenge will continue throughout the next year, so stay tuned for the next challenge, the Cave circuit in later 2020.

• Learn more about Microsoft Autonomous Systems: https://aka.ms/as
• Learn more about the DARPA challenges and the results: https://aka.ms/AA7m1h9