DARPA seeks 2000 percent increase in robot power transmission efficiency: Research and development will cover two tracks of work:
Track 1 asks performer teams to develop and demonstrate high-efficiency actuation technology that will allow robots similar to the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) platform to have twenty times longer endurance than the DRC GFE when running on untethered battery power (currently only 10-20 minutes)... the second DRC live competition scheduled for December 2014.
Track 2 will be tailored to performers who want to explore ways of improving the efficiency of actuators, but at scales both larger and smaller than applicable to the DRC GFE platform, and... advance the science and engineering behind actuation without the requirement to apply it at this point.
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