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Teams build robots to cross desert (DARPA offers $1 million prize to the winner)
Contra Costa Times/AP ^
| 8/15/03
| Dan Nephin
Posted on 08/15/2003 11:50:54 PM PDT by DPB101
The Pentagon is offering $1 million to whoever builds an unmanned vehicle that can cross up to 250 miles of some of the toughest terrain imaginable, the Mojave Desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Competitors are not allowed any type of remote control to maneuver around whatever obstacle the desert may throw at them.
No one will be able to change a flat tire or refuel, either.
(Excerpt) Read more at bayarea.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: darpa; mojavedesert; pentagon
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posted on
08/15/2003 11:50:55 PM PDT
by
DPB101
To: DPB101
Cool! Sort of an X-Prize for land-based robots. Asimov would have been all over this, RIP.
NFP
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posted on
08/16/2003 8:56:45 AM PDT
by
Notforprophet
(A leg of lamb, a jug of wine, and thou! Alone together, whistling in the darkness.)
To: Notforprophet
Hope they are filming the competition. Be great for TLC or Discovery. DARPA does some great stuff but what we hear most of them comes from whining paranoid liberals who would like the entire department shut down.
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08/16/2003 9:09:39 AM PDT
by
DPB101
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