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Photos: Robots race around 'Darpa city'
Photo It was part of Darpa's $3.5m robot race, the Urban Grand Challenge. Darpa released more than 30 vehicles to simulate real traffic conditions for the robots in the Urban Challenge. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, raised the... [14 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - September 2007
Photo The armour plated Ford E-350 van will compete in the Darpa Urban Grand Challenge taking place in November where it will race with dozens of other driverless vehicles. The iPod Touch features touchscreen controls, much like the iPhone, and the... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Robot racer hits the street
Photo Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams competing in DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge, a race of driverless vehicles on mock city streets, scheduled for 3 November. [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: The car that drives itself
Photo The Urban Challenge run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), which is affiliated with the US Department of Defense. The rally was run in the Mojave desert in 2004 and 2005 but for its third running in November the race will... [13 Apr 2007]
Darpa robot race gets prize fund boost
News Darpa has granted prize money of $3.5m for its milestone urban robotics race next November, a far cry from its previously planned trophies. When the 2007 Urban Challenge was first announced in May, Darpa said it would dole out more than $2m in... [11 Dec 2006]
Darpa to hit the streets
News The Darpa Grand Challenge is moving from desert to urban terrain. A location for the finals of the Darpa Urban Challenge has not yet been named. Darpa director Tony Tether said in a statement: "We believe the robotics community is ready to tackle... [03 May 2006]
