Watch Out Night Rider, Here Comes MIT's Rover

[Slam]

Talos, the name given to a Land Rover that drives itself, is MIT's newest creation. It is an entry in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) "Urban Challenge" robotic car race, which will take place on November 3, in Victorville, CA.

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MIT's Talos is equipped with numerous laser range finders, radar units, Global Positioning Systems, and video cameras, and novel software that runs on 10 quad-core computers in the Land Rover's trunk to make sense of the incoming data and calculate the car's next move.

 

[Roughtx]

Talos, the name given to a Land Rover that drives itself, is MIT's newest creation. It is an entry in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) "Urban Challenge" robotic car race, which will take place on November 3, in Victorville, CA.

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MIT's Talos is equipped with numerous laser range finders, radar units, Global Positioning Systems, and video cameras, and novel software that runs on 10 quad-core computers in the Land Rover's trunk to make sense of the incoming data and calculate the car's next move.

This is the coolest LR3 that I have ever seen! I want one!

 

[samroverguy]

Awesome!!!!