Frankly, the real date to watch will be the probable 2006 follow-on. The tech just isn't there yet for this kind of thing, at any cost!
Its really exciting, frankly, that this kind of event could be held and most of the World Class Experts in the field not only be able to keep a straight face about it, but also participate in it. There was an outside chance somebody could win the race- but it was very slim.
Kudos to the Red Team (CMU, of course).
I think in about 2 years we'll see 2 or 3 bots cross the finish line (and I'm sure CMU will be one of them). When you hear the field leaders say 'its just a matter of programming/implementation/design' and not 'uts an interesting question of theory' or 'the technology isn't built yet that can ... ', you know the '5 years out' boundary has been broken- that magical line where problems in technology become tractable. I think we are there with a lot of robotics-in-AI issues.
Davin L.
Space/Science » in reply to Well, that was a bit of a letdown
Not at all!
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- Well, that was a bit of a letdown
- ahem, as I told you before
- Not at all!
- DARPA prize leveraged a 50:1 investment, as Burt Rutan suggested it would...
- au contraire
- Let me guess! This involved a tax-funded government organization. (n/t)