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Desert Robot Race Update, With Video

Posted by timothy on from the mmm-mpeg dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Several teams have moved forward with their bid to run the Barstow-Vegas Desert Robot Race (For those not familiar check out http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge ). As of today 55 teams are registered, some of the most interesting are Cal Tech, AI Magic, and the Red Team out of Carnegie Mellon. Also fishing around the Red Team site, there is a pretty nifty video."

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  1. Sounds like a job for by euxneks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Monster Garage!

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    in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
  2. i think i will enter by kdb003 · · Score: 5, Funny

    i will simply program it to set off an emp.
    that should spice things up

  3. Re:Interesting project which can save some lives by dreadnougat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or you could use trained monkeys to do the same thing. This accomplishes two things: 1) Saves lives by clearing out dangerous landmine and other unexploded ordinance. 2) Pisses off PETA Well I don't know about you, but I'm off to kill a cute animal to make into a bag.

  4. fear and loathing... by HS.Thompson · · Score: 1, Funny

    We were somewhere near Barstow on the edge of the desert, when the robots began to take over... I for one welcome our new robot overlords!

  5. First problem by blair1q · · Score: 4, Funny

    Design a Robot that can drive alone from Barstow to Las Vegas without dying of boredom.