Robot race hits the tracks
Forty-three robotic vehicles take on the semifinals of the DARPA Grand Challenge. Only 20 will be invited to the finals.
Forty-three robotic vehicles take on the semifinals of the DARPA Grand Challenge. Only 20 will be invited to the finals.
Vulcan shares many traits with its reclusive founder, Paul Allen, yet behind the scenes the company is responsible for philanthropic support to research and community-building activities, as well as investing commercially in the likes of Radar Networks (the company behind Twine) and Evri.Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with Mark Greaves, Vulcan's Director of Knowledge Systems Research, and the resulting podcast was released earlier today.
On the final day of the Intel Developer Forum, CTO Justin Rattner made the case for more powerful PCs and servers with tens or even hundreds of processing cores.
The Cray intellectual property and personnel will help Intel "achieve ExaFlops performance."
UC Berkeley is working on a helicopter that can guide itself through cities. Will automated traffic reports be next? Photos: Copter demonstrates self-control
Researchers reckon that they can solve the US government sponsored crowdsourcing game, Tag Challenge 'within the first hour of the competition' if viral communication by social media works as predicted.
Teams from around the country are getting ready for the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge for robotic cars.
Teams from around the country are getting ready for the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge for robotic cars.
Stanford Racing Team is busy perfecting robotic SUV Stanley in preparation for the upcoming DARPA Grand Challenge.
Stanford Racing Team is busy perfecting robotic SUV Stanley in preparation for the upcoming DARPA Grand Challenge.