Robotic Hummer Competes for $1 Million Prize

[Bruce Levinson]

A heavily modified Humvee engineered by a team from Carnegie Mellon University "became the first entry to dodge bricks, metal rods and other obstacles and finish a qualifying run for Saturday's $1 million race across the Mojave Desert."

The "Grand Challenge" desert race is sponsored by the Pentagon as part of their efforts to develop practical unmanned, self-controlled ground vehicles. The Defense Department wants to "have one-third of all ground vehicles unmanned by 2015."

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