And then there were eleven. Yesterday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that it had narrowed the field for its Urban Grand Challenge to just under a dozen robotic vehicles. 35 teams were part of this week's qualifying rounds.
The finalists, which include a truck, a Prius and a sedan, will be competing this weekend for $3.5 million in prize money. To finish, each robot has to complete a 60 mile course in under six hours. And there's going to be live traffic—roughly 50 human-driven vehicles will be on the road. The robots will even have to deal with four-way-stops. Which would be amazing, since that's something most humans can't even figure out. Tomorrow, watch the race live here.—Gregory Mone
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I again just before Reloaded came out to psych and prepare yourself for an awesome sequel? Well, with the Urban Challenge - aka Grand Challenge II - right around the corner, we wanted to relive the moments of the Grand Challenge and found this awesome video series on the historic robotics contest here on PBS NOVA.
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