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- Can a Robot Fly Better than a Skilled Pilot?
- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA recently completed its Autonomous Airborne Refueling Demonstration AARD program, showing that unmanned aircraft can autonomously perform in-flight refueling under operational conditions. The recent flights built on the first-ever fully autonomous refueling, conducted under controlled test conditions a year...
- Research articles 2007-11-12
- Corporate ads tag robot racers
- LOS ANGELES -- When the Pentagon's research arm first called for innovators to design and race a self-driving car to make warfare safer, a ragtag bunch of garage tinkerers, computer geeks and even high school students answered. No one won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's inaugural...
- Research articles 2007-10-29
- Tartan the boss of DARPA urban challenge: despite spectacular "detours," robots mostly played nicely with each other; the mysterious Jumbotron
- With a goal of being at least as capable as a 16-year-old California driver, 11 robotic vehicles gathered at dawn on Nov. 3 in the high desert northeast of Los Angeles. The 11--10 cars, light trucks, SUVs and one very large truck--were all that remained of 89 teams that entered...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Get ready, get set, race! Position and orientation data for autonomous navigation
- Preplanning information about terrain is as important as real-time navigation for achieving peak performance in autonomous driving. Both preplanning and navigation--and key technologies to support them--helped the Carnegie Mellon Red Team successfully guide the robot vehicles Sandstorm and Highlander through the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge course. ********** Peak...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Team CIMAR Enters Dept of Defense Robot Race: 1st Place, $2 Million
- GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- This fall, Team CIMAR Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics plans to unleash the NaviGATOR, an unmanned robotic vehicle that looks like a cross between a jeep and a swamp buggy, on 175 miles of uncharted terrain near Las Vegas, Nev. The team held a successful...
- Research articles 2005-05-19
- The robots' great race: a $2 million DARPA derby in the desert
- Double your money, double your fun. That rationale seems to work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA. When the $1 million Grand Challenge 2004 prize for autonomous navigation of a 150-mile course went unclaimed, the agency boosted the 2005 Challenge purse to $2 million. By the February 1...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- University of Alaska-Fairbanks Puts Robot in Driver's Seat in Race for Funds.
- By Robert Howk, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 4--Slow and steady wins the race. And the Arctic Tortoise has a good chance at victory -- next time. That's the philosophy of Rick Ruhkick, team leader of...
- Research articles 2004-04-04
- Big robot race is a real smash
- The rise of the machines suffered somewhat of a setback Saturday as a fleet of high-tech, unmanned vehicles demonstrated the ability to plow into fences, snarl themselves in barbed wire and even self- immolate, all unaided by human hands. Played out in the unforgiving sands of the Mojave...
- Research articles 2004-03-14
- Desert Robot Race to Begin in Victorville, Calif., to End in Primm, Nev.
- By John Galayda, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 6--Twenty-five teams of scientists and engineers are busy this week gearing up for an autonomous robotic race that could win them a $1 million prize. The "Grand...
- Research articles 2004-03-06
- Robot cars rally for desert race.(Assembly Lines)
- LOS ANGELES -- Numerous engineers, researchers and robot aficionados have signed up for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency DARPA Grand Challenge, a contest that generates ideas that hopefully will lead to the development of self-driving c LOS ANGELES -- Numerous engineers, researchers and robot ...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Volkswagen robot vehicle wins DARPA Grand Challenge.(AUTOMOTIVE)
- With the technological support of the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory ERL, Stanford University's robotic Volkswagen Touareg, known as Stanley, has won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, run in the Mojave desert near Primm, Nevada. Stanley's With the technological support of the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- DARPA does downtown: third autonomous vehicle challenge confronts the worst operating environment, city traffic; robots or Baghdad?
- The first time, no one went eight miles. The second time, only a year later, five unmanned vehicles drove nearly 132 miles through the desert, in and out of tunnels, over dry lake beds and down a nasty mountain pass.
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- From DARPA to the battlefield: Oshkosh demonstrates driverless PLS vehicle; robot truck could carry beans and bullets in war zones with less risk to personnel
- Virtually every modern war has introduced--or at least greatly hastened the development of--new mobility technology. In WWI, it was the tank, WWII, the airplane and Jeep and in Vietnam, it was the helicopter. For Afghanistan and Iraq, it could be the unmanned vehicle.
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Stanley rides again; Racing robots.(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
- This year's Grand Challenge race actually produced a winner This year's Grand Challenge race actually produced a winner
- Research articles 2005-10-15
- Fighting talk: DARPA director Dr Anthony Tether told The Engineer how the agency is transforming the US military into a technological world beater--that may include robot soldiers
- NEXT MARCH Disneyland in California will play host to a group of engineers, businessmen and US government officials. The conference will appear unremarkable, scarcely attracting a second glance from tourists visiting the amusement park. But the subj NEXT MARCH Disneyland in California will play host...
- Research articles 2003-09-26
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- iRobot to Create Revolutionary New Robot for DARPA
- Company Receives $3.3 Million Award to Develop Cutting-Edge Robots that Help Soldiers Gain Access to Denied or Hostile Areas BEDFORD, Mass. -- iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT) today announced the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and the U.S. Army Research Office have awarded the company a new multi-year, multi-million...
- Research articles 2008-06-17
- iRobot Receives Award for DARPA LANdroids Program
- iRobot Receives Award to Develop Small Mobile Communications Relay Robot - Empowering Warfighters with Ad-Hoc Communications In Theater BURLINGTON, Mass. -- iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ:IRBT) today announced it has received an award under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's DARPA LANdroids program. Through this multi-year robotics research and development program,...
- Research articles 2008-03-03
- Indianapolis Motor Speedway Announces Support for the Indy Robot Racing Team; Indiana Continues Its Automotive and Racing Legacy
- INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home to the greatest spectacle in racing, announced today their support for the Indy Robot Racing Team. The Indy Robot Racing Team, presented by Indiana University, developed an autonomous ground vehicle capable of maneuvering without human control. Indiana's Robotic Vehicle IRV is competing in...
- Research articles 2005-09-22
- Aye, robot.(DARPA Grand Challenge 2005, sensor-rich autonomous robotic vehicles race)(Editorial)
- "Autonomous ground vehicles can travel long distances across difficult terrain at militarily relevant rates of speed." --official DARPA announcement, October 8, 2005 It's been compared with the Wright brothers' quest for flight and the Apollo moon mission. And now that...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Waiting for robot: DARPA's autonomous vehicle challenge
- A lonely vigil took place March 13 at the desert finish line of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's DARPA Grand Challenge. Spectators and team members anxiously awaited word of fifteen unmanned vehicles on a hazardous 146-mile course from Barstow, California to Primm, Nevada. Starting at dawn, the vehicles attempted...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
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