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NASA Prizes for Builder and Flyer Robots

Posted by Zonk on from the more-weapons-for-my-droid-army dept.

FleaPlus writes "NASA has recently announced a couple more X-Prize-style Centennial Challenges. The first is a Telerobotic Construction Challenge, for using a team of robots to assemble structures from building blocks with minimal human intervention. The second is an Planetary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Challenge, to create a robot which can fly a path using visual navigation and hit ground targets with a probe (no GPS allowed). Rules are still being finalized, with the contests scheduled for 2007. Both prizes are for $250,000, the max Congress is allowing NASA to offer."

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  1. Hmm... by St0rmwarden · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if GTX Global will be entering anything with their "true AI" onboard...

  2. Re:Fixed prize limit? by Somatic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Four words: Chief Knock-a-Homer.

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    My script don't crash! She crashes, you crashed her!
  3. Re:250K?!?!?! by ichigo+2.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to Babelfish:
    It was once sweet rabbit. The rabbit had a large carrot. It was a special carrot: if you ate a piece of it, then she regenerated within fewer minutes again. The rabbit hid it in its earth hole. But a beautiful daily, when the rabbit came back to its hole, was it away. The rabbit frightened and began a hole to dig. It dug and dug to it on a large cave pushed. The carrot is because of the other end of the cave. But there was also an orange, petrified cow with wings.


    Orange petrified cow with wings, indeed. :)