Robots … start your engines!

posted 9:07am EST Tue Jul 29 2003 - submitted by Matthew

The mission: to get a vehicle from Los Angeles to Las Vegas over a grueling off-road course. The contestants: a bunch of amateur/professionally built robot-controlled vehicles.
This forms the basis of the coming DARPA Grand Challenge, run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The competition will see vehicles, which must be completely autonomous and cannot be controlled by any living thing, fighting it out for the coveted prize. The course will be 250 miles long and must be completed in 10 hours or less, with the winner receiving US$1 million. The race takes place on March 13, 2004.
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