From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com> To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] DARPA Grandchallenge 2005 set for this Sunday Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 23:29:55 -0400 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> The second DARPA sponsored robot race in the desert goes off this Sunday, and I'm sure we'll see a vast improvement over last year's performance. I met one of the designers at a mil-robot conference in DC a few months back and was happy to see that his entry, a robotic motorcycle (which looks really eerie standing still and not falling over) made the number 2 slot in qualifying trials. You can find the links to the official sites at my techrevu blurb: http://www.techrevu.com/php/article.php?id=918 Ernest Lilley Home/Office: 703 606 7946 email: elilley at mindspring.com