Red Team Enters Robot Desert Race

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Red Team Enters Robot Desert Race

• Grand Challenge Race
• Red Team Winning Edge
• Heritage Robot Gallery
• Why Race?
• Who is Red?
• Join Us

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Grand Challenge Race

• LA to Vegas, Driverless Vehicles
• Autonomous Control No Commands
• Mountains, Deserts Torture Terrain
• Course provided just before start
• Defies Technology Maybe Unwinnable
• Raceday is March 13, 2004
• 1M prize, winner-take-all

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Red Team Winning Edge

• CMU Robotics - Premiere Heritage Core
• Alliance of Peers, Partners Corporations
• Unequalled Technology
• Deep, Successful Experience Systems
• Committed Leadership
• Unparalleled Facility
• Hot Start

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Early CMU Robotics Heritage
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Early Desert Exploration
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Early Road Following
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Desert Mine Haulage
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Future Ag Market
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Future Agenda in Mines Caves

• No Map
• No GPS
• No Sun
• No Comm
• No Retrieval
• Wet
• Toxic and Explosive

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3 hr, 1 mile Mine Mapping
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Why Race?

• Compels a leap of technology
• Galvanizes a generation of youth
• Aligns on new markets opportunities
• Transforms a vision of what is possible
• Plays with an event of our time
• Involves a new community
• Inspires ourselves and our world
• Exceeds Possibility

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Red Whittaker

• Robotics Visionary
• World-Class Mobile Robot Developer
• Premiere Technologist
• Proven Track Record of Robotics Programs
• Effective Manager
• Resourceful implementer
• Committed Leader

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