Overview of the event.

A DARPA-sponsored series of races across difficult terrain. The vehicles in the races are autonomous (self-driven) vehicles built by various teams. Racers' progress, links to team websites, details about the course, and images from the final race.

A race of autonomous ground vehicles from the vicinity of Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2004. The purpose of the race is to encourage the accelerated development of autonomous vehicle technologies that could be applied to military requirements.

Renee Montagne talks with Michael Griffis, owner of Eigenpoint Company. Griffis helped design a robot that is competing in this year's DARPA Grand Challenge. [3:02 streaming audio broadcast]

Teams from across the country launched 40 robots yesterday on a 150-mile trek through the Nevada desert. The Pentagon's advanced research agency will pay $2 million to the winner. Last year, no robot finished the course. [4:43 streaming audio broadcast]

The Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL will be competing in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. The Oasis Team website includes project information, a list of team members, and sponsor info.

Article titled "The Grand Challenge that Everyone Won - DARPA's Unmanned Ground Vehicles Race".

Article titled "This Humvee Is Car and Driver".