Posts Tagged ‘Stanford University’
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Google began the latest online mapping craze a couple of years ago when it kicked old school stalwart Mapquest to the curb. Since then Microsoft and Yahoo have jumped into the fray and the gang from Redmond has made a lot of progress with 3-D visualizations of its maps. Google has added features to ......
Tags: aerial maps, challenge winner, competitor, DARPA Grand Challenge, DarpaGrandChallenge, fleet, google, google maps, jose mercury news, Mapquest, mercury, models of buildings, old school, san jose mercury, san jose mercury news, sensing technology, sketch, Stanford University, StanfordUniversity, Stanley, urban challenge, visualizations
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
The late Otis Chandler's collection of vintage autos and motorcycles was auctioned off over the weekend and the final numbers were record-breaking. A total of $36 million of art, cars and bikes went across the block, setting a record for a single collection. The previous record was for a 1990 Sotheb......
Tags: amp company, art cars, auction, bettina chandler, chandler collection, Duesenberg, duesenberg model, gentlemen start your engines, harley davidson knucklehead, ladies and gentlemen, los angeles times, mercedes sport, Otis Chandler, OtisChandler, oxnard california, porsche racing, rare motorcycles, sotheby s, Stanford University, trophy game animals, vintage automobiles, vintage autos, wooden sculpture
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Every week, in garages around the world, amateur racers spend their hard-earned day-job dollars repairing and improving all sorts of racecars, with one goal in mind - winning a tacky plastic trophy on the weekend. Now the U.S. government has honored that hallowed tradition, announcing that the robot......
Tags: amateur racers, autonomous vehicle, carnegie mellon university, cash prize, cash prizes, corporate sponsors, DARPA, DARPA Grand Challenge, darpa urban challenge, day job, defense advanced research projects agency, defense contractors, goal in mind, hallowed tradition, mil spec, perennial contenders, racecars, raytheon, research projects agency, robot driver, robot fans, robot race, Stanford University, urban challenge, world amateur
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Since ESPN passed on airing the DARPA Grand Challenge in its entirety last October, we’re grateful that PBS is picking up the slack. The esoterically excellent NOVA program will air “The Great Robot Race” tonight on PBS at 8PM EST, in which the winning VW Touareg named “Stanley” fielded by......
Tags: DARPA, NOVA, PBS, Stanford University, StanfordUniversity, Stanley, touareg, volkswagen, vw
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