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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. Torrent by Aliencow · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am currently downloading the file (it's slowing down every second..) but would anyone be willing to provide a tracker ? I'll make a .torrent and email it/seed it !

    1. Re:Torrent by Aliencow · · Score: 3, Informative

      Torrent.pl requires registration to access their "upload" page..
      Same for Voracity..
      TorrentReactor Seems to work ! Get the Video now!

  2. CNET had a story on this a while back by tessaiga · · Score: 5, Informative

    News.com covered the Grand Challenge a while back in one of their articles. Gives a more viewer-friendly overview of what it's all about than DARPA's site.

    --
    The bold print giveth, and the fine print taketh away ...
  3. Re:Interesting project which can save some lives by Pvt_Waldo · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here are some stats from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines website at http:///www.icbl.org and the Clear Landmines website at http://www.clearlandmines.com...
    1. Over 35,000 amputees in Camboida alone from landmine injuries
    2. An estimated 200 million landmines have been manufactured in the last 25 years.
    3. Each year, 26,000 people are killed or mutilated by landmines of which 8,000 are children.
    4. Roughly 3 people every hour, 71 per day are injured or killed by landmines


    The US Military DOES put effort into this kind of thing for landmine detection. It's not just a "killing" technology. Check out http://www.aro.army.mil/arowash/rt/sbir/00PHIII/00 page3.htm for example. Cool "geek friendly" vehicle which can save lives. There are others too. Go to google and search for sbir landmine detection. SBIR grants are a type of grant the US goverment (all branches, not just military) give out every year to small businesses to develop stuff.
  4. Red Team Movie Mirror by jgaynor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here, Courtesy of Rutgers.

  5. CMU Mirror by Rufus211 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow, this is the second CMU site taken down in the last few days. Well, lets see if we can take down an other! Here's a mirror of the movie and some documents on my CMU account:

    http://andrew.cmu.edu/~pnelson/www.redteamracing.o rg/

  6. MIRROR by BhAaD · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is a link: http://sch5.digitalnines.com/red_team.mpeg

  7. BitTorrent Link by BenFranske · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Red Team file should be availible using BitTorrent at http://voracity.net/download.php/344/red_team.mpeg .torrent