Robotic cartographers created these colorful cave maps

Image caption: The SLAM technique stands for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Image credit: CSIRO Data61 / YouTube / Screenshot. Article by Kelsey D. Atherton. Popular Science – February 2, 2022. 

Last week, the team that took second place in a DARPA competition called the Subterranean Challenge released two videos recorded from runs last year through the Louisville Mega Cavern. These videos, recorded as part of the competition to find, identify, and map underground spaces, offer a glimpse into the world of machine-generated mapping of three-dimensional spaces. […]

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Video: DARPA SubT Challenge – 3D SLAM flythrough – Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group CSIRO Data61

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