DARPA Grand Challenge
The US Government is offering a one million dollar prize if a robot can drive from Barstow, CA to Las Vegas, NV in under ten hours. The official rules state:
"The Route will include surfaced and un-surfaced roads, trails, and off-road areas. Man-made and natural obstacles—both above and below the surface of the average terrain—are likely. Examples of obstacles include ditches, washboard, open water, rocks, underpasses, construction, power line towers, barbed wire fences, and other vehicles. All obstructions on the route can be either accommodated or avoided by a commercial 4X4 pick-up truck."
This is a lot more interesting to me than an episode of Robot Wars. I really hope that someone will report some technical details of the contestants.
The US Government is offering a one million dollar prize if a robot can drive from Barstow, CA to Las Vegas, NV in under ten hours. The official rules state:
"The Route will include surfaced and un-surfaced roads, trails, and off-road areas. Man-made and natural obstacles—both above and below the surface of the average terrain—are likely. Examples of obstacles include ditches, washboard, open water, rocks, underpasses, construction, power line towers, barbed wire fences, and other vehicles. All obstructions on the route can be either accommodated or avoided by a commercial 4X4 pick-up truck."
This is a lot more interesting to me than an episode of Robot Wars. I really hope that someone will report some technical details of the contestants.
posted by Mark @ 10:17 PM
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