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From the very beginning of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals, it was obvious that driving was going to be a problem for the robot contestants. The very first robots to take the field this past Friday at the Fairplex in Pomona, California showed up without their modified Polaris utility vehicles. These machines were hoofing it, using their own legs to gradually make their way down a dirt strip meant to simulate part of a disaster zone too perilous for humans. It turned out to be pretty perilous for robots, too. By not even getting into the cars, these teams were already conceding defeat in the two-day Pentagon-funded competition.

Robots build cars, vacuum floors and complete sophisticated, minimally invasive medical procedures. But there’s still one thing they can’t do, a scientific head-scratcher that continues to distinguish machines from human beings: While a robot might outsmart a single human, it cannot defeat two.

Robots build cars, vacuum floors and complete sophisticated, minimally invasive medical procedures. But there’s still one thing they can’t do, a scientific head-scratcher that continues to distinguish machines from human beings: While a robot might outsmart a single human, it cannot defeat two.

Nevada leads the nation in drone technology, as now there is more proof that the future of robotics is right here at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.

When you ask 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ robotics professor Paul Oh how long his laboratory took to create, he can’t help but laugh.

51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ professor Paul Oh is pleased as they are finally opening the doors on a newly built lab for its drone and robotics programs featuring their Metal Rebel competition entry and many others.

The new 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Drones and Autonomous Systems Lab is in the back of a 99 Cents store building across the street from the Clark County Library on Flamingo.

We’re looking at the heavy-duty digits of a Hubo humanoid robot hanging in his 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ engineering lab, and Paul Oh is trying to help me understand why they’re not as elegant as mine. Yet.

The little girl squirmed in her mother’s arms inside a lab at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, her American flag-themed dress contrasting with the hammers, rulers and other engineering equipment that surrounded her.

That 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ students were selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon against teams from elite private institutions such as Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the California Institute of Technology was an accomplishment by itself.

Then 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ went and beat them all.

Robots on the open road. That could be the future for Nevada, which opened its roadways to driverless cars in 2011. Nevada also recently hosted the Consumer Electronic Show, where Toyota and Audi unvieled self-driving technology. So how far are we from the science-fiction fantasy of driverless cars? And how will it change how we drive in the future?