Former UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab student wins BIG in DARPA Robotics Challenge

April 14, 2021

Professor Bewley's former student, Dr. Chris Schmidt Wetekam, the first PhD graduate of the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab, and now a member of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), was an integral member of the IHMC Atlas team that placed second at the DARPA Robotics Challenge in Pomona, winning $1M in prize money.  23 teams teams competed.  More info here:  http://www.ihmc.us