[Jalopnik's desert stringer Curtis Walker is following the DARPA Grand Challenge, an annual race of autonomous ground vehicles, with a serious case of the techies. We'll have his reports today on the National Qualifying Event semifinals, like this one, as... ...full story at digg
from digg on Mon, Oct 29 2007
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C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances » slashdot nil0lab writes "In a case of 20/20 hindsight, Princeton DARPA Grand Challenge team member Bryan Cattle reflects on how their code failed to forget obstacles it had passed. It was written in Microsoft's C#, which isn't supposed to let you have memory... |
| 01 Nov 07 |
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DARPA selects 11 robotic grunts to take driver's license test » the register (uk) Shudder. Have you seen R2D2 parallel park? DARPA applied a firm hand when narrowing down the list of robot vehicles that can take place in the weekend's $3.5m Urban Challenge. The organization - an arm of the US Defense Department - has deemed only 11 out... |
| 26 Sep 07 |
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DARPA code teams compete on same K9 robot » the register (uk) Multiple-personality droid dog; mad science indeed DARPA, the Pentagon research bureau which likes to put the battiness back into battle-boffinry, is pressing ahead with its robot dog/packmule/mini-Imperial-Walker programme.… |
| 26 Oct 07 |
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$2 Million on the Table for DARPA Urban Challenge » slashdot coondoggie writes "The contestants: Thirty-five driverless vehicles. The goal: to navigate an intricate faux-urban environment quickly. The prize: $2 million for the fastest qualifying vehicle. 'The National Qualification Event will take place this... |
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MoD announces 'Grand Challenge' tech-prize winner » the register (uk) Johnny 5 to tame Afghanistan in 2010? Analysis The MoD has now announced the winner of its "Grand Challenge" technology competition, which ended yesterday. The winning Team Stellar used a ground-crawling robot and two flying ones to unmask a range of... |
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