Wectar - Computers - Robotics - Competitions - DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge

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	NPR : Robot Vehicles Race for $2 Million Prize URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4951901 ODP description: Teams from across the country launched 40 robots yesterday on a 150-mile trek through the Nevada desert. The Pentagon's advanced research agency will pay $2 million to the winner. Last year, no robot finished the course. [4:43 streaming audio broadcast]
	Urban Challenge URL: http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/ ODP description: Official site has contest description and results, photo galleries, and media resources. Also has archives for the 2004 and 2005 Grand Challenge events. Page title: Grand Challenge Home
	NPR : Competing in the Government's Robot Race URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4933587 ODP description: Renee Montagne talks with Michael Griffis, owner of Eigenpoint Company. Griffis helped design a robot that is competing in this year's DARPA Grand Challenge. [3:02 streaming audio broadcast]
	CNN.com - Robots fail to complete Grand Challenge URL: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/14/darpa.race/index.html ODP description: Overview of the event. Page title: CNN.com - Robots fail to complete Grand Challenge - Mar 14, 2004
	This Humvee Is Car and Driver URL: http://www.wired.com/cars/energy/news/2004/02/62333 ODP description: Wired News article about the Carnegie-Mellon entrant Sandstorm was written before the 2004 event Page description: Carnegie Mellon University's Red Team unveils a fully autonomous robot Humvee designed to race across a desert with no human intervention. Lore Sjöberg reports from San Francisco.

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