{"id":395,"date":"2006-03-27T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T01:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2006-03-27T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T01:54:32","slug":"the-great-robot-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/the-great-robot-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Robot Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Great Robot Race<\/strong> will air on NOVA Tuesday Night (March 28, 2005). If you can&#8217;t watch it then, it will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/darpa\/program.html\">available on-line Wednesday<\/a>.  Not only are Aerospace concerns competing for DoD DARPA funds, but some scrappy smaller outfits will be involved.  Team entrants named &#8220;Sandstorm&#8221; and &#8220;Ghostrider&#8221; and 10 others will race across the Mojave Desert to prove their viability as robotic ground vehicles. Speed isn&#8217;t the main objective for the DARPA award.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/darpa\/about.html\">NOVA&#8217;s &#8216;The Great Robot Race&#8217; airs Tuesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/greatrace.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/>Join NOVA for an exclusive backstage pass to the DARPA Grand Challenge\u00e2\u20ac\u201da raucous race for robotic, driverless vehicles sponsored by the Pentagon, which awards a $2 million purse to the winning team. Armed with artificial intelligence, laser-guided vision, GPS navigation, and 3-D mapping systems, the contenders are some of the world&#8217;s most advanced robots. Yet even their formidable technology and mechanical prowess may not be enough to overcome the grueling 130-mile course through Nevada&#8217;s desert terrain. From concept to construction to the final competition, &#8220;The Great Robot Race&#8221; delivers the absorbing inside story of clever engineers and their unyielding drive to create a champion, capturing the only aerial footage that exists of the Grand Challenge.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Some of the Robots entered in the race. NOVA<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Robot Race will air on NOVA Tuesday Night (March 28, 2005). If you can&#8217;t watch it then, it will be available on-line Wednesday. Not&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-military","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}