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Start Your Engines
Robotics Posted by Pennywise on Thursday March 11, @12:07AM
from the it-better-live-up-to-the-hype dept.
That's right, it's just about time for the DARPA Grand Challenge. A recent article in Wired magazine talks about the 20 "driverless bots" that will attempt to race from LA to Vegas without drivers -- or any human intervention at all. Let the games begin.

Driverless robots are nothing new for Darpa. The agency has funded research on autonomous ground vehicles for more than a decade, and contractors like Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics have whole divisions working on the problem. But the Pentagon wants a third of its trucks, tanks, and recon vehicles to operate on their own by 2015, and Darpa worries that without a leap or two, the science will arrive late. "They've been at this for 10, 15 years now. Where are they? Nowhere!" Negron says.

Check here for the last CogNews mention of the Grand Challenge.


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    Re: Start Your Engines
    by Rob Hoogers on Saturday March 13, @02:21PM
    http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20040312/index.html

    for an update. The field is down to 15, btw.
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    Re: Start Your Engines
    by Rob Hoogers on Sunday March 14, @12:17AM
    And the 'winner' is: ;) http://www.grandchallenge.org/statusboard/
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    Re: Start Your Engines
    by Justin on Sunday March 14, @01:25PM
    Well, the DARPA Grand Challenge has proven once again that artificial intelligence and robotics are still not advanced to the point that we would like to think they are. I think that this is actually encouraging because it often seems in reading any scholarly journal that humans have the world all figured out. The exciting news is that we aren't even close if the "winning" team in a 142 mile race didn't even reach the 8 mile (Detroit What!) My condolances also go out to the Carnegie Melon Red Team because they invested much and got little.
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