Desert Robot Race Update, With Video

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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Re:Interesting project which can save some lives

[Skyshadow]

Or you could have it roll into a network of caves and shoot the people inside without exposing your own guys to risk.

Or you could send it over to an enemy location and transmit a "bomb me" signal to the smart bombs to hit.

Or you could have it crawl in and set fire to a compound where a bunch of religious extremists are held up.

Or you could use it to wait in a ditch for a month until the car of a political leader rolls by and blow it up.

These aren't all necessarily *bad* things -- it's always been reality that we kill each other, sometimes with good reason. But it *is* another step away from the old days when you'd have to risk your own life to kill another person, which IMO makes it a lot easier to do.