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

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

[url]http://www.grandchallenge.org/[/url]

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[COLOR=Navy]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.[/COLOR]
[url]http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/12853064.htm[/url]

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



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