Darpa's Next Challenge? A Grueling Underground Journey
I can\u2019t sit here and guarantee you a robot won\u2019t take your job one day\u2014capitalism kind of has a thing for automation. What I can tell you is that in the near future, robots will be doing jobs that no one wants to do. For instance, risking your life doing rescue operations after mining disasters. Which is why for its next robotics competition, Darpa is going underground, with the Darpa Subterranean Challenge.