University of Maryland Team Wins Robot Sub Competition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 4, 2008 @10:31AM from the holding-their-breath-all-weekend dept.

William Cox writes "A team from the University of Maryland has won the 11th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, held in San Diego, CA, this weekend. Twenty-five teams from around the world (US, Canada, Japan, and India) built autonomous submarines to complete a series of tasks using vision recognition, autonomous navigation, and sonar. Maryland unseated the 3-time record holder, University of Florida, to win first place. University of Texas at Dallas took 2nd, and a Canadian team, École de Technologie Supérieure, took 3rd."

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Not Impressed... by PC+and+Sony+Fanboy · 2008-08-04 10:40 · Score: 0, Troll

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Well, that isn't hard. If it goes underwater, and doesn't completely sink, it qualifies. It doesn't even need to keep a monkey inside, and alive!

C'mon, I make Autonomous Underwater Vehicles every time I take a dump in my friends pool when he's not looking... and I don't win ANYTHING. *sigh*