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Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot

Posted by michael on from the danger-will-robinson dept.

OctaneZ writes "NASA announced that they will enter, in cooperation with Caltech, a 50ft robot in the Rose Bowl Parade - unfortunately it will be made entirely of flowers and will not attempt to enslave the crowd. However, they have mounted a camera to it, which will allow you to view the parade from the top of their creation."

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  1. Remember.. by HungSoLow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No flash photography..

  2. DARPA Grand Challenge by kf6auf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First, you know this is truly dorky because they specifically mention that the stream will play for free for Unix, Mac, and Linux users. Yay for Caltech! (Sorry, being a student there I am a bit biased.) The other day I was thinking, why is there a person driving this thing? The reason our DARPA entry stopped was because it ran into a chain link fence (because it didn't see it). I mean, how hard can it be to write some software to tell the float to follow the float in front of it at the same speed and not run into anything. All it has to do is go straight, make a couple of turns, and not hit anything. It can't be that hard, can it? ::sigh:: Maybe next year.