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DARPA Robot Contest Update
rbrandis writes "DARPA has selected a wide variety of teams, after a series of last minute rule changes and a solid outpouring of anger, the final list of competitors for DARPA's Grand Challenge robot race has been set with 25 teams preparing to try and win a $1 million prize." The anger is exemplified by submissions like this one: Totally_Lost writes "Last spring we flocked to DARPA's Grand Challenge media event in Los Angeles to be told that they wanted everyone's participation in their Robot race this March. They told us that the race would be open to Mom and Pop garage sized participants - and Lied. This fall, nearly 100 teams completed technical paper submissions, with about half to be eliminated from the $1M prize race because they were too small to be 'real' competitors. Well, the rejected robot racing teams got together in Las Vegas last month, and formed the International Robot Racing Federation. This month IRRF is announcing its first competition with $1M in prizes pledged by sponsors, and lesser prizes too, to be offered in a REAL OPEN Challenge next September (providing the race that DARPA failed to deliver)."
My team got cut from the competition unfairly. Our robot was clearly superior to the rest of the competition. In fact, it was SO intelligent (it had nearly 3 billion lines of code just for adaptive learning) that it could be president of the United States and not fuck it up nearly as much as Dubya has.
For example, our robot (which we named TurboR0x0rz 1337B07Z0RZ) can accomplish the seemingly impossible dipolmatic of NOT PISSING OFF THE ENTIRE WORLD. Also, it can make critical decisions that don't jeapordize the lives of hundreds of thousands of troops! And to think, using Python to program a bot.... maybe Dubya could use some Python.
Even the people being torn limb from limb or otherwise mangled by DARPA's new giant mechanical spiders?
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)