The DARPA Robotics Challenge is now officially underway. You can watch a live stream of it right now. Thankfully, they aren't Terminators just yet.



The tasks set before these bots are pretty challenging. The various teams involved are hoping to claim the challenge's hefty $2 million bounty.

They will face eight different tasks, including driving an ATV like vehicle through a twisty course, climbing an eight foot tall ladder, opening a lever-handled door, navigating an obstacle course featuring ramps and loose footings, cutting a hole in the wall, spinning wheels to close three air valves, unreeling a hose and connecting its nozzle to a faucet, and finally clearing debris from a doorway.

[DARPA Robotics Challenge via IEEE Spectrum]