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Brave bots are learning to autonomously traverse underground caves and mines

🎶Goin' deeper underground🎶
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Designed by researchers at CERBERUS, the ANYmal C and RMF-Obelix test how robots and maps fare in subterranean environments.

The robots are equipped with onboard exploration path planners that share submaps to a centralized location, where a multi-robot coordination framework assesses the terrain and informs each system on how best to continue its mission.

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