DARPA Grand Challenge - Unmanned Vehicles Update
A while back I wrote on the topic of Unmanned Vehicles (UAV)where the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)was planning the organization of its third Urban Challenge designed to encourage the best minds in the world to meet Congress' requirement that one-third of all military vehicles be unmanned by 2015.
The challenge date is upon us and now 35 teams of elite robot experts are on their way to Victorville in hopes of finding a pattern when it comes to driving cars which will save hundreds, if not millions of live claimed to automobile accidents each year.
The prize is $2 million, a fractional sum when it comes to saving lives.The military of course is putting out the award money in hopes to keep its people out of the path of an improvised explosive device.
In the long run, the hopes is that these robots could drive humans around or at least take over on an "auto pilot" way when we are too tired or just partied a little too much, for example.
In two days, this Thursday, DARPA will announce the names of the 20 teams that have made it past the first phase and will go on to compete in the finals Saturday. The final event is open to the public from 6:30 a.m. to noon. For more information, visit the DARPA challenge Web site.
The challenge date is upon us and now 35 teams of elite robot experts are on their way to Victorville in hopes of finding a pattern when it comes to driving cars which will save hundreds, if not millions of live claimed to automobile accidents each year.
The prize is $2 million, a fractional sum when it comes to saving lives.The military of course is putting out the award money in hopes to keep its people out of the path of an improvised explosive device.
In the long run, the hopes is that these robots could drive humans around or at least take over on an "auto pilot" way when we are too tired or just partied a little too much, for example.
In two days, this Thursday, DARPA will announce the names of the 20 teams that have made it past the first phase and will go on to compete in the finals Saturday. The final event is open to the public from 6:30 a.m. to noon. For more information, visit the DARPA challenge Web site.
Labels: DARPA, UAV, unmanned vehicle
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