The driverless car course is taught solely by [Thrun], who helped win the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge with his robot car. In case you’re wondering if this is going to be another one-time deal ...

Below, watch 30-second, pre-race video clips and read profiles of each of a dozen teams that participated in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. This random sampling will give you a good idea of the ...

If you're still skeptical that these kinds of challenges can have any real-world impact, I'll leave you with one final fun ...

Twentythree bizarre looking vehicles line up at the starting gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with one thing in common theres nobody behind the wheel Sponsored by the Pentagons research agency ...

when DARPA started a series of robotic car races called the Grand Challenge. And that really is what jump-started the autonomous care industry. DARPA doesn’t make money off of the products it funds.

Princeton, TerraMax, and Team DAD (in the first Grand Challenge, in 2004) all tried the technique, with varying degrees of success. In the technique, two cameras are mounted side by side ...

A seasoned technology and security executive, Dan Kaufman's experience spans the public and private sectors, including ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting its 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials December 20-21 in Homestead, Florida. Six teams will go head-to-head to build the ultimate ...

Altepeter said he has always been a tough critic of quantum computing proposals, but he’s hoping for the selected companies to challenge his assumptions. “DARPA's mission is to prevent strategic ...