DARPA - Pentagon - launches Robot Vehicle Races - for Battlefied Advantages

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD).


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The first of 23 driverless robotic vehicles rolled across the Mojave Desert at dawn Saturday in a $2 million Pentagon-sponsored robot race across 132 miles of rugged desert and mountains.
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, made the course harder this year and doubled the taxpayer-funded prize to spur innovation and development of remote control-free robots that could be used in the battlefield.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/merc...s/california/northern_california/12853064.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4319570.stm



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