2005 DARPA entry
Last year, the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) sponsored a
Grand Challenge - autonomous vehicles were supposed to navigate a 300 mile, off-road course in the Mojave Desert.
The
2005 event is scheduled for October 8th, here is one of the entries:
The cool thing is that the builders are age 15 and 20:
From
the article:
bq. Chip firm Via is backing a team called "The Prodigies" as its official entry into the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
bq. The Prodigies - two young lads called Nicholas Hoza (15) and Christopher Medrzycki (20) have built the autonomous vehicle pictured below using a Via EPIA mini-ITX motherboard.
bq. The vehicle, it's claimed, can drive and navigate on its own and cope with the Darpa Grand Challenge - with a prize of $2 million for the winner.
bq. The young guys are showing off the vehicle at the Robonexus 2004 show. The robot, shown below, is certainly smaller than the Intel Itanium car which Chipzilla entered last year.
Posted by DaveH at October 20, 2004 7:40 PM