WORCESTER, Mass. — In about a month, the robotics team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will have to put their robot up against 24 other teams from around the world in the DARPA Robotics Challenge finals.

After working for several years on this project, the team is down to its last three weeks to make their humanoid robot as autonomous, fast and reliable as possible.

That means they’ll be working around the clock until Warner, their Boston Dynamics-built robot, is put in a crate and shipped to Pomona, Calif., for the last challenge in this global competition.

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