US Marines Defeat DARPA Robot by Hiding Under a Cardboard Box DARPA has trained one of its robots to identify humans. There’s just one little problem: The robot is cartoonishly easy to confuse.

"Not humans somersaulting, hiding in a cardboard box, or disguised as a tree. So these simple tricks, which a human would have easily seen through, were sufficient to break the algorithm." ...

Two Marines performed somersaults for 300 meters. Then, two more hid inside a cardboard box, giggling as they approached the DARPA robot. Another took branches and pretended to be a tree.

A group of US Marines evaded detection by an AI robot using a cardboard box ... Scharre explains how two of the Marines "somersaulted for 300 meters," another two hid under a cardboard box, ...

Marines fooled a DARPA robot by hiding in a cardboard box while giggling and pretending to be trees Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert Updated Sun, January 29, 2023 at 9:27 PM UTC ...