DARPA Grand Challenge

By rss@youtube.com (themoogman) Promo for the Science Channel series Robocars about the DARPA Urban Challenge. Captured on a really old and crappy USB capture thingy. Author: themoogman Keywords: robocars science channel darpa urban challenge robots cajunbot team gray plan Added: July 11, 2008

By Noah Shachtman One day, that could lead to “morphing aircraft and ground vehicles, uniforms that can alter themselves to be comfortable in any climate, and ’soft’ robots that flow like mercury through small openings to enter caves and bunker complexes.” A soldier could even reach into a can of unformed...

 New Zealand In the Darpa Urban Challenge, a competition held in 2007 to find the best driverless vehicles in a city environment, the race was won by the team from Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors with an average speed of 23kmh. ...

By Robert Jaques The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has renewed a $1.5m contract with the University of Southern California to develop smart robo-dogs. The robots were developed by Stefan Schaal, an associate professor in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Computer Sc...

Apparently the folks at Darpa have never seen The Matrix, Terminator or any of 1,000 other movies. Hence the LANdroid project progresses: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to develop a fleet of robots that soldiers can deploy in urban combat settings as they move throu...