To get a view of the front lines in this story, one need not penetrate any secret government bunkers or fortified data centers. Instead, the action is proceeding directly beneath the halogen lit glare ...

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency officials announced 19 finalist teams earlier this month for the agency's March 2004 Grand Challenge. DARPA officials previously announced they would host a ...

March 13 marks the 20-year anniversary of the inaugural DARPA Grand Challenge race, which catalyzed interest in self-driving tech. DARPA Director Tony Tether, Carnegie Mellon University’s Red ...

favorite. Each team must pass a qualification, inspection, and demonstration before DARPA will permit access to the starting line the following week. As a sponsor of the Red Team, Space Imaging has ...

More than 20 University undergraduates and six professors are constructing an autonomous vehicle that can navigate a 60-mile simulated urban driving course in less than six hours. The team hopes to ...

Stanford and VW are teaming up to put a driverless Touareg in this year's DARPA Grand Challenge. The competition pits 20 teams against each other for the $2 million prize. The Challenge involves ...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to award a $1 million prize to the winner of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) race next March, in the hope that the resulting technical ...

The winnowing has begun for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's national qualification events at the California Speedway in Fontana, on the road to the "2nd Darpa Grand Challenge" on Oct.