DARPA SubT Challenge

Staff show two robots to a group of visitors

SubT Family Day

On Sunday 5th December we hosted a family day at our CSIRO site at Pullenvale. Staff showed their family and […]

DARPA SubT Summit 2021

This free online summit will share technical details of systems track teams that competed in the DARPA SubT Challenge Finals […]

CSIRO Data61 Team finished 2nd in the DARPA SubT Challenge!

The CSIRO Data61 Team, formed by CSIRO, Emesent and Georgia Tech have finished second in the DARPA SubT Challenge! This […]

IEEE Spectrum’s Evan Ackerman had a Q&A with the CSIRO Data61 DARPA SubT Challenge team Principal Investigator Navinda Kottege

How have you been preparing for the SubT Final? Test, test, test. We’ve been testing as often as we can, […]

CSIRO Team Representing Australia in the Equivalent of an Olympic Finals for Robotics

Experts from around the world have spent the past three years pushing the boundaries of autonomous robotic technology to map, […]

DARPA Subterranean Challenge Cave Circuit event concluded!

The CSIRO Data61 team competing in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge recently concluded its own Cave Circuit event. Unfortunately the official […]

DARPA SubT Challenge – CSIRO’s Data61 August 2020 Update

Our team was thrilled to learn from DARPA’s SubT Challenge program manager Dr Timothy Chung that we have qualified for Phase III of funding to continue in the competition. We were […]

A behind the scene story about our team during the DARPA SubT Urban Circuit by IEEE Spectrum

Evan Ackerman from IEEE Spectrum compiled some curious ‘behind the scenes’ stories not seen on the live stream of the […]

Watch ICRA2020 Workshop – CSIRO’s Dynamic Hexapod: Development and Deployment in the DARPA Subt Challenge

In this talk, Nick Hudson, our Senior Principal Research Scientist, describes the development and deployment of our dynamic hexapod robot […]

DARPA SubT Challenge – CSIRO’s Data61 June 2020 Update

After successfully finishing in 4th place at the DARPA SubtChallenge Urban Circuit in Washington, USA this past February, our team is now busily preparing for the next event, the Cave Circuit, scheduled for Q4 2020.  […]