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Carnegie Mellon wins DARPA Urban Challenge

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angio
angio writes "Carnegie Mellon University's Tartan Racing team won the DARPA Grand Challenge, narrowly beating out competitors Stanford and Virginia Tech in a closely-watched race. Eleven finalists started the race on Saturday, with six finishing. The top three winners received $2 million, $1 million, and $500 thousand, respectively. Blow-by blow blogging of the event was covered by the register, Wired, and Popular Mechanics."
The Military

DARPA Urban Challenge Event winners announced->

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An anonymous reader writes "The DARPA Urban Challenge Event winners have been announced. 1st Place — Tartan Racing, Pittsburgh, PA 2nd Place — Stanford Racing Team, Stanford, CA 3rd Place — Victor Tango, Blacksburg, VA 6 out of 11 finalists completed the race, and MIT only crashed a couple of times — a tremendous accomplishment for the entire field! Virginia Tech had an awesome performance for an underdog team. From the DARPA Website: "Vehicles competing in the Urban Challenge will have to think like human drivers and continually make split-second decisions to avoid moving vehicles, including robotic vehicles without drivers, and operate safely on the course. The urban setting adds considerable complexity to the challenge faced by the robotic vehicles, and replicates the environments where many of today's military missions are conducted." http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp"
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Robotics

'Boss' Wins DARPA's Urban Challenge->

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Iddo Genuth
Iddo Genuth writes "After several hours of highly eventful competition Carnegie Mellon University's robotic car team won DARPA's 2007 Urban Challenge. "Boss", as it is known, was able to complete all three main missions and 19 submissions successfully scooping gold for Carnegie Mellon and its panthers with Stanford in second place and Victor-Tango from Virginia Tech coming in third. Hundreds watched the Urban Challenge on site with thousands watching at home using DARPA's live feed as the 11 robotic cars drove, crashed (into each other and into walls) got stuck in robotic traffic jams and even passed other human driven cars as they raced towards the finish line, in what shall be remembered as the first realistic urban robotic competition."
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Robotics

CMU takes the Urban Challenge $2m prize ->

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pacopico writes "CMU has taken first place in the Urban Challenge robotic car race sponsored by DARPA, according to this story in The Register, which looks like the first account. For winning, Carnegie Mellon grabbed $2 million, while second place Stanford took $1 million and third place Virginia Tech won $500,000. CMU lost to Stanford in the previous race. But, in this year's contest, the robots had to battle it out on an urban course, competing with other robot vehicles and stunt driver, as opposed to the desert race in 2005."
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