You can find out about the four (or 5) entries that finished the DARPA
grand challenge here: http://www.grandchallenge.org/
Certainly, this represents a large step forward for expert systems, AI,
and robotics.
But can robots also autonomously emerge ironic conceptual art?
One team, Indiana Robotic Navigation, notes the following on their homepage:
"Indiana Robotic Navigation believes that Jesus is the Christ the son of
the living God. We will strive to do everything we do to glorify our
Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that the only way to succeed is with the
Lord's help. We want a challenge that is so big that if God isn't in it,
it will surely fail. The Grand Challenge is just such a project."
http://www.indianaroboticnavigation.com/
How did things work out for Christ's warbot? From the New York Times:
"There were several crashes during qualifying and practice runs the week
before the race. One vehicle, named the Spirit of Christianity, by
Indiana Robotic Navigation, went through a gate on the qualifying
course, made a hard right turn and ran directly into a wall."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/08/technology/08robot.html
Darpa Grand Challenge: accidental art? (Indiana Robotic Navigation)
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On 9.10.2005, at 02:25, Brett Stalbaum wrote:
> the Spirit of Christianity, by Indiana Robotic Navigation, went
> through a gate on the qualifying course, made a hard right turn and
> ran directly into a wall."
Religion makes lots of "hard right turns" and frequently runs into
walls.
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Pall Thayer
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Used Ford explorer? $10,000. Modifications to DARPA Grand Challenge
entry? Probably 100,000+. Christian warbot making a "hard right" and
coming to a crashing halt against a wall? Priceless.
Pall Thayer wrote:
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> On 9.10.2005, at 02:25, Brett Stalbaum wrote:
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>> the Spirit of Christianity, by Indiana Robotic Navigation, went
>> through a gate on the qualifying course, made a hard right turn and
>> ran directly into a wall."
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> Religion makes lots of "hard right turns" and frequently runs into walls.
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> Pall Thayer
> [email protected]
> http://www.this.is/pallit
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