Thursday, March 09, 2006

The darpa challenge on PBS' Nova

An exclusive backstage pass to the DARPA Grand Challenge, a raucous race for robotic, driverless vehicles, sponsored by the Pentagon, which awards a $2 million purse to the winning team. Armed with artificial intelligence, laser-guided vision, GPS navigation, and 3-D mapping systems, the contenders are some of the world's most advanced robots.

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