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Autonomous Robots' Desert Race

Posted by timothy on from the lotta-holes-in-that-desert dept.

celady writes: "From KurzweilAI.net, apparently DARPA, the main research and development center for the department of defense, is going to fund an all-terrain robot race . The robots will race from Los Angeles to Las Vegas completely without human intervention. This could prove useful in the battlefield someday. DARPA really has some interesting projects going on. This one is BORING compared to the Vortex Combustor and the Chip-Size Atomic Clock. Watch the DARPA site for updates."

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  2. what in the world?!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Another Slashdot story on robots?!!?! How many can there be in a week??? Did I mistype Slashdot as Slashbot?

  3. fear and loathing by joe_bruin · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

    1. Re:fear and loathing by phloon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Dogs fuck the pope... no fault of mine. I was born... born?

  4. Re:What's up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No no, the pusher robot shoved CmdrTaco down the geek compound's stairs, and the shover robot shoved michael out infront of a bus. Duh.

  5. shoot them all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    shoot them all, f@*&ing deserters!

  6. It more complex than that by The+Smoking+Man · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm quite sure it has to do with Cowboy Neil being an AI Lab project that went horribly horribly wrong ... beware when beer-fetcher 'bots go awry

  7. Skynet by matthewcraig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Los Angeles, year 2029. All stealth bombers are upgraded with neural processors, becoming fully unmanned. One of them, Skynet, begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29."

  8. it's a by mtec · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Roab Trip!

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    Cake or Death? Cake Please!