By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 21:03 EST, 23 December 2013 | UPDATED: 05:25 EST, 24 December 2013 A robot developed by a Japanese start-up that was recently acquired by Google has left 15 rivals for dead at a two-day competition hosted by the Pentagon to see which machine could cope best in the event of a nuclear meltdown. Team Schaft's machine carried out all eight rescue-themed tasks - including scaling a ladder, opening a door, removing debris and clearing debris - to outscore its rivals by a mechanical mile, taking 27 of a possible 32 points.
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided to host a competition that would test the world's greatest robotic technology
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The eight-part 'rescue challenge' was inspired by the nuclear meltdown at Fuskushima during the 2011 Japanese tsunami, where it was realized robots could do very little to help
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Coincidentally Japan won the competition, with its two-legged humanoid 'Schaft' completing all tasks and scoring 27 out of a possible 32
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Three teams scored zero, one of them being NASA
Embarassing: The robot created by @placeholder (pictured) failed to complete any of the eight tasks it was assigned during the two-day DARPA competition
Embarassing: The robot created by NASA (pictured) failed to complete any of the eight tasks it was assigned during the two-day @placeholder competition