NASA Prizes for Builder and Flyer Robots 74
FleaPlus writes "NASA has recently announced a couple more X-Prize-style Centennial Challenges. The first is a Telerobotic Construction Challenge, for using a team of robots to assemble structures from building blocks with minimal human intervention. The second is an Planetary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Challenge, to create a robot which can fly a path using visual navigation and hit ground targets with a probe (no GPS allowed). Rules are still being finalized, with the contests scheduled for 2007. Both prizes are for $250,000, the max Congress is allowing NASA to offer."
Already something like the second one: (Score:5, Informative)
Yes it's GPS vs Visual, but roughly similar
Military? (Score:3, Informative)
"Fully autonomous ingress of 3km to an urban area, locate a particular structure from among many, identify all of the true openings in the correct structure, fly in or send in a sensor that can find one of three targets and relay video or still photographs back 3km to the origin in under 15 minutes."
It looks similar, although the prize money is only $50k, and it's for military use.
Re:Fixed prize limit? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Fixed prize limit? (Score:3, Informative)