POMONA, Calif. — South Korea’s Team Kaist, which had been in sixth place after the first day of competition in the DARPA Robotics Challenge finals, maneuvered past its rivals on Saturday to win the two-and-a-half-year battle.

Team Kaist slipped past the other teams to claim the $2 million prize in what was a battle between some of the best roboticists from around the world. There were 24 teams all together.

The winning team is made up of engineers and programmers from Kaist, a South Korean research university formerly known as the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, along with researchers from the Rainbow Co., a spinoff of the university’s research lab.

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