Team CoSTAR Subterranean Challenge Practice Run

Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots (CoSTAR) is developing robots that can autonomously explore caves, pits, tunnels and other subsurface terrain. Watch the team and their squad of robots prepare for the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Urban Circuit during a practice run at Elma High School in Elma, Washington, in the days leading up to the competition. The team ultimately came in first place in the competition. Held by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the competition is intended to develop technology for first responders to map, navigate and search underground. Technology developed for the competition will also lay the foundation for future NASA missions to caves and lava tubes on other planets. For more info on Team CoSTAR, visit Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech