Pentagon Robot Challenge Goes Corporate

When the Pentagon’s research arm first called for innovators to design and race a self-driving car to make warfare safer, a ragtag bunch of garage tinkerers, computer geeks and even high school students answered.

No one won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s inaugural contest in 2004. An encore the following year produced five robots that crossed the finish line, and a team from Stanford University drove away with the $2 million prize.

[Full Story by Alicia Chang at The State]