The official winner of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge has been crowned, and it's Stanford University's robotic Volkswagen Touareg, a.k.a. Stanley. The completely autonomous Touareg completed its ...

Below, watch 30-second, pre-race video clips and read profiles of each of a dozen teams that participated in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. This random sampling will give you a good idea of the ...

The emergence of vision language models (VLMs) offers a promising new approach. VLMs integrate computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP), enabling AVs to interpret multimodal data by ...

Google's self-driving cars emerged from the DARPA Grand Challenge. Amazon's picking robots were inspired by a similar competition a decade ago.

If you're still skeptical that these kinds of challenges can have any real-world impact, I'll leave you with one final fun fact. The DARPA Grand Challenge, an autonomous driving competition funded ...

The challenge is focused on so-called cyber reasoning systems (CRS), a term DARPA researchers may have coined and that certainly became prominent during the agency’s Cyber Grand Challenge that ended ...

Read about the final round of the challenge, which will assess systems on their ability to find and fix intentionally ...

In a new call for proposals, DARPA envisions living materials that could self-assemble into antennas, nets to capture debris, ...

DARPA wants space structures that are grown rather than built, and the building blocks for these new structures are living ...

While DARPA's first Grand Challenge competition was considered by some to be a total failure, it did set in motion the whole idea of creating autonomous vehicles. And by the next Grand Challenge ...