NCSU team waits for word on Pentagon competition
Published: Wed, Aug. 08, 2007 03:43PM
Modified Wed, Aug. 08, 2007 03:50PM
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closeAn N.C. State University-based team of students and engineers will learn Thursday whether they’ve made the semi-finals in a Pentagon competition to help design robot vehicles for the battlefields of the future.
Meanwhile, they’re having fun at the racetrack.
Lone Wolf, a blue Lotus sports car that is learning to drive itself, is one of 53 competitors in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Urban Challenge. In an announcement scheduled for 1:45 p.m. Thursday, up to 30 semi-finalists will be invited to a week-long qualifying event somewhere on the West Coast in late October, followed on Nov. 3 by a 60-mile final race with a $3.5 million purse.
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Lone Wolf’s sponsors took the car to Virginia International Raceway in July, where they set an unofficial robot speed record. The little car drove itself at speeds up to 49mph before slipping on wet grass and spinning out. A video record of the speedway shenanigans is posted on YouTube.
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