150606-N-PO203-169 POMONA, California (June 6, 2015) Members of team Valor cheer as ESCHER, short for Electric Series Compliant Humanoid for Emergency Response, completes the first challenge during day two of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Robotics Challenge (DRC) in Pomona, Calif. Designed, fabricated and assembled by engineering students at Virginia Tech, ESCHER leverages software and design learnings from another project underway at the lab, the Office of Naval Research-sponsored Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot, or SAFFIR. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released)