The three-day event will challenge the teams and their robots with 10 different samples of unknown shape, size, and location.

这项为期三天的比赛将用10种形状、大小、位置都未知的不同样品来考验团队和机器人。

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The Challenge is a series of tasks to test the capabilities of robots designed for disaster response in emergencies.

的挑战是一系列的任务来测试机器人设计用于在紧急情况下应对灾害的能力。

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The performance of the robots will help DARPA evaluate the current state of robotics, and will also determine which teams go on to compete in the DARPA robotics Challenge Finals in 2014.

机器人的性能将帮助DARPA评估机器人的当前状态，并且也将决定哪支队伍继续在DARPA的机器人挑战赛总决赛的竞争在2014年。

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For the last portion of the challenge, the robots will be balanced on the bridges in the middle of the field in order to score additional points.

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In November, DARPA put street-level robots to the test in its Urban Challenge, a race of 12 autonomous cars through simulated city streets populated by obstacle cars.

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When the final round of the Urban Challenge begins Saturday morning, that field will have been whittled down to just 20 or so robots by the event's sponsor, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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