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Robot Race for early birds

johnr - 27-2-2004 at 12:31 AM

This may be a bit off topic but there will be a Robot Race from Barstow to Las Vegas on March 13th. Here's the link to the article in Scientific American:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&am...

I wish I could be there...

Robot Race - But are they really?

Lack-O-Slack - 27-2-2004 at 02:52 PM

Hmmm... methinks Eli and Jon are behind this... they better peel back the skin on every one o'them robots, and look for "Libre" tags and, hey, don't them antennas look just like kites? :alien:

follow this race live

Fran G - 13-3-2004 at 07:07 AM

Go to the following link, and you get live coverage, with great maps of the areas we buggy in. http://www.grandchallenge.org/tracking/darpagc-hi.htm :singing::singing:

Race Results

johnr - 14-3-2004 at 04:07 PM

They all broke down within the first 8 miles!