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3 Bots Win Pentagon's Robotic Rally

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the soon-they'll-be-everywhere-we're-doomed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We've got a winner in the Pentagon's $3.5 million all-robot street rally, the Urban Challenge. Three, actually. Wired reports that 'bots from Stanford, Virginia Tech, and Carnegie Mellon all completed the course within the six-hour time limit. The robo-cars had to complete different missions taking varying times, so the flesh-and-blood judges will take a day to figure out who takes home first prize."

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  1. go go power-rangers by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Funny

    They merged up into a superbot and won the contest by destroying everything around them.

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  2. How Long? by xLittleP · · Score: 2, Funny

    How long until one of the sore losers goes into "Destroy All Humans" mode?

    Actually on second thought, wouldn't that be the one DARPA would want to have? It's win-win!

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  3. urban taxi system by sgt+scrub · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know why the contestants are spending all that cash and beefing up the AI on these machines. A tape recorder that mumbles incoherent obscenities could pass as a NY cab driver.

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