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The Great Robot Race

WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
edited 2009-09-18 02:45 in Robotics
Hey all,

If you have not seen this, it is really worth a watch. It is PBS NOVA special called The Great Robot Race and is about the DARPA Grand Challenge. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoiJeIb0wBA

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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

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  • sailman58sailman58 Posts: 162
    edited 2009-09-15 15:35
    Hi Whit,

    Thanks for the heads up on this, even though it made my late start this morning even later! It was worth the time spent to view it.

    Ron aka sailman58
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2009-09-15 16:26
    Watched this last night during dinner. The wife even got into it and cheered the German team on, who of course won.

    I felt bad for the Ghost Rider team, especially after what happened the previous year.· Ouch.· Maybe he should have stayed in school?

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    Post Edited (Chris Savage (Parallax)) : 9/15/2009 4:34:29 PM GMT
  • CHIPKENCHIPKEN Posts: 45
    edited 2009-09-15 21:34
    Parallax did provide some BASIC Stamps to the group. The motorcycle used some Stamps and did qualify for the final race. I think he had the best setup as far as cost goes. All those other vehicles were very large and costly. I just wanted to indicate here that Parallax did support this effort and attended the field trials.

    That guy with the motorcycle was working much by himself and did make a big wave at the event against the bigger guys.

    Chuck
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2009-09-15 22:36
    Hey all,

    Here is a link to the PBS webpage for the program - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/

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    "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
  • CounterRotatingPropsCounterRotatingProps Posts: 1,132
    edited 2009-09-15 23:13
    Thanks for posting these, Whit - very interesting and enjoyable.

    (Although I don't think I'll be trusting an ARV to drive me to and from work any time soon [noparse]:)[/noparse]

    Here's a challenge of a different sort --- although not autonomous, it must take some pretty good robotics to make it go...



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  • ScopeScope Posts: 417
    edited 2009-09-15 23:37
    Very cool.
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2009-09-16 01:16
    Below is a link to some pictures that I took when I went to the Urban Challenge version (the third race). It was pretty fun, since I went both to the race and the welcome weekend a week before. The teams were very friendly and let you look in their cars and discuss the challenge.

    DARPA_UC(ZIP Archive - 37.5MB)
  • DimitrrisDimitrris Posts: 7
    edited 2009-09-17 10:42
    Very very cool
  • P!-RoP!-Ro Posts: 1,189
    edited 2009-09-18 02:45
    agreed. you should have taken some pics of yourself with the other teams, cody

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