Team Explorer Places Fourth in DARPA SubT Challenge

Carnegie Mellon University - Members of Team Explorer stood in an open cavern deep into DARPA's final course of the Subterranean Challenge. They had already walked through a mine, a cave and an abandoned subway station, all built inside the Mega Cavern in Louisville, Kentucky. "That's impressive. We got most of it," Matt Travers , a team co-lead, said looking at a course map posted in the cavern. "We explored almost all of the map." Team Explorer lived up to its name during the final round of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Subterranean (SubT) Challenge. The team's fleet of robots mapped nearly the entire course and explored more of the course than any other team. The team, made up of students, faculty and staff from Carnegie Mellon University and Oregon State University, placed fourth in the final round of the challenge, scoring 17 points.