DOD won't award cash in next robot race

General Lee's Peking writes: From the article:

After Stanford University won a Pentagon robot race through the Mojave Desert last year, engineers and students hoisted an oversized $2 million check... Next year's winners won't be as rich. The Pentagon's research arm, which has twice hosted the high-tech contests since 2004, blames an obscure section in a defense spending law signed by President Bush this week.