Japanese robot crushes competition in robot olympics

Originally posted on Gigaom:
If you are ever trapped in a collapsed building, SCHAFT is the robot you’ll want by your side. The a bipedal robot, built by a Japanese team, just took the top score in the DARPA Robotics Challenge trials, where it scored 27 out of a possible 32 points. IHMC Robotics (20 points), Tartan Rescue…