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Virginia Tech just pulled in to be the third team to complete the challenge.

• donal 19y ago
  The next team has 4 more submissions to complete, so it is going to take a little more. Current order is Little Ben (Ben Franklin), Talos (MIT), Skynet (Cornell). I think to this point there have only been 2 collisions, both involving Talos. They were relatively minor and clearly did not cause a DQ or cause any noticeable difference in behavior. This is an impressive leap in technology from the Grand Challenge. At this point, I think that the remaining three are going to finish too.
  • donal 19y ago
    Interestingly, MIT just got snagged by a gate that had swung open. It was a very thin gate, like a triangle of pipes. It had been blown open in the wind. It was interesting to watch because it was clear that the robot didn't know what to do to get around it. This was probably because it was at an intersection, so it was seeing the gate and the stop line. The bot had its turn signal on, so it new that it was at the intersection. After watching the bots religiously adhere to traffic rules, it was an interesting comparison to watch the course officials speeding down the road to remove the obstacle.
• chwolfe 19y ago
  Go Hokies! (VT CS '05)