Not content to field yet another hulking behemoth in the upcoming 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle event, North Carolina State University has teamed with Lotus Engineering to build a modified Lotus Elise sportscar for their entry. Check out this related DARPA Lotus Elise post for more information on the speedy driverless-vehicle to be, in [...]
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Dr. Octopus? Your tentacles are ready….
Fans of Spider-Man’s arch-enemy Dr. Octopus now have reason to rejoice: researchers have managed to create the equivalent of robotic tentacles which can grasp, manipulate and lift objects. A team of scientists and engineers working on the OCTOR Project — partially funded by DARPA — are exploring “ways to bring the remarkable capabilities of muscular [...]
DARPA 2007 Urban Challenge Announced
We’ve already posted a bit about the impressive results from the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, which tasked a bevy of robotic vehicles with autonomously navigating a 131.2 mile road course. Three vehicles managed to make it across the finish line in the time allotted for the competition, proving that full-size robotic vehicles are a tangible [...]
iRobot’s PackBot Joins Space Tech Hall of Fame
At the 22nd National Space Symposium — held in Colorado Spings, CO yesterday — iRobot’s PackBot was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. Created with technology developed partially at JPL and and DARPA, the PackBot has proven itself to be the bomb disposal unit’s best friend, helping identify and disable improvised explosive [...]
NOVA and the Great Robot Race
One of the more interesting programs to appear on public television recently was NOVA’s entertaining and informative program on the DARPA’s 2005 Grand Challenge, dubbed The Great Robot Race. The event itself — sponsored by DARPA in an effort to further development of autonomous vehicles for possible use in future robotic military hardware — [...]
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