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Robotics Challenge: Creating the Disaster Response of the Future

Oskar von Stryk, right, a German robotics expert, shows a group of students the Atlas robot. Team ViGIR, a collaborative effort between TORC Robotics of Christiansburg, Virginia, the Technical University of Darmstadt, Virginia Tech University and Oregon State University, plans to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge on Dec. 20 and 21. (Pat Jarrett/ Polaris/ DER SPIEGEL)

Oskar von Stryk, right, a German robotics expert, shows a group of students the Atlas robot. Team ViGIR, a collaborative effort between TORC Robotics of Christiansburg, Virginia, the Technical University of Darmstadt, Virginia Tech University and Oregon State University, plans to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge on Dec. 20 and 21. (Pat Jarrett/ Polaris/ DER SPIEGEL)

Oskar von Stryk, right, a German robotics expert, shows a group of students the Atlas robot. Team ViGIR, a collaborative effort between TORC Robotics of Christiansburg, Virginia, the Technical University of Darmstadt, Virginia Tech University and Oregon State University, plans to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge on Dec. 20 and 21. (Pat Jarrett/ Polaris/ DER SPIEGEL)