Warbots: Supplybots: DARPA Grand Challenge
By 2015 the Defense Department is requiring 1/3 of transport vehicles be "autonomous" or robotic. To promote research in this area, the miltary's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsors an annual "Grand Challenge" in the Mojav ...
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