Hello all you FIRSTers!
DARPA intends to conduct a challenge of autonomous ground vehicles (robots) between Los Angeles and Las Vegas in March of 2004. A cash award of $1 million will be granted to the team that fields the first vehicle to complete the designated route within a specified time limit. The purpose of the challenge is to leverage American ingenuity to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle technologies that can be applied to military requirements. Many of the details of the event are being developed, and new information will be posted to their web site as soon as possible.
The website is:
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge
I am currently building a FIRST Coalition team from all those that may be interested to tackle this challenge, so if any of you are interested, please respond to this thread or email me at
ILSDirector@aol.com. Remember...$1 million + Fame + Multi-million dollar contracts + Fun robot competition building and competition experience!