CHIMP, robot, National Robotics Engineering Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

What makes a champion? Fast. Reliable. Stable.

That’s CHIMP – part ape, part tank and 100 percent innovative. CHIMP, a four-limbed robot designed and built by Carnegie Mellon University’s Tartan Rescue Team, finished third and won $500,000 at the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a two-day event that pitted 24 of the world’s most advanced robots against each other in a test of their ability to respond to disasters.

CHIMP can grasp objects with ‘hands' that include opposable thumbs and, like a tank, it moves via tracks positioned on its limbs, generally using all four for stability but able to move on just two when necessary.

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Tartan Rescue's CHIMP robot was able to recover from a fall at the first day of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals. Learn more:

"DRC Finals: CMU’s CHIMP Gets Up After Fall, Shows How Awesome Robots Can Be"

by Evan Ackerman and Erico Guizzo
June 5, 2015

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Tartan Rescue's CHIMP robot hard a perfect run in the first day of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.

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