DARPA Grand Challenge entrant Stanley The car itself is equipped with four laser range finders, a radar system, two stereo cameras, and a monocular vision system, all of which allow it to build a ...

Five out of 23 competing robots successfully navigated a 132-mile course through the Mojave Desert in October 2005 as part of the DARPA Grand Challenge race. To qualify for the $2-million prize ...

195 TEAMS: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) received 195 applications from teams hoping to compete in the next Grand Challenge robotic race, the agency announced Feb. 14.

Sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research arm of the Department of Defense, this year's competition — dubbed the DARPA Urban Challenge — is the first to follow the ...

With the slow vehicle passing and a 50mph speed limit, the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge didn't entirely seem to set the stage technologically for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, but get ready ...

In this, the second of a series, Popular Science profiles one of the favored teams competing to win the Darpa Grand Challenge autonomous-vehicle race, which will take place on Saturday, October 8 ...

They ranged in size from a motorcycle to a 32-ton truck, and in cost from US$35,000 to $3.5 million. All were gathered that brisk morning to participate in the first DARPA Grand Challenge.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tony Tether near the starting line of the national qualification run for the second DARPA Grand Challenge on Oct. 4, 2005, in California.

Thirty-one teams already have signed up for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) next Grand Challenge robotic vehicle race, to be held Oct. 8, 2005, in the Mojave Desert area.

DARPA Grand Challenge 2005: a race-day diaryThe bots continue to launch in intervals for about two and a half hours, and TerraMax, the big yellow behemoth from Oshkosh, lumbers out in second place ...