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Grit and DARPA in the News

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Cog-Brun RollingWith the announcement of Team Grit and 24 other teams we are seeing a number of news articles showing up online. Here are a few that give some information about the challenge, the teams, and photos of the robots we are up against.

We look forward to seeing more news!

DARPA Announces Team Grit as Qualified

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Cog-Burn YayDARPA has announced Team Grit as a qualified! Cog-Burn our robot, will be one of 25 robots developed to provide assistance to humans in a disaster. There is also a $3.5 million worth of prizes for the top 3 teams. Finals will be on June 5th and 6th 2015 at Fairplex in Pomona, California.

The full press release from DARPA can be found at: 20150304_Web_Feature_DRC_Teams_Finals.pdf

Below is a video showing some improvements in the works to increase movement speeds, the speed is necessary to compete with the increased difficulty of the finals challenges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MKwBObn4xk

White Knight @ CES 2015

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White Knight and Karl at CES 2015
White Knight and Karl at CES 2015

The White Knight autonomous vehicles, along with lead programmer Karl Castleton, will be at the Delphi both during CES 2015. The booth is located in the Gold Parking lot booth NP-2 and is showing a progression of autonomous vehicles. If you at CES go and check it out, the vehicle is a piece of autonomous history.

Members of Grit, formerly Team Mojavaton, developed the Nissan Xterra for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.

Computer Controlled Polaris XP 900 Steering

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Computer Controlled Polaris XP 900 Steering – Grit Robotics working on a side project to make a self driving Polaris XP 900, this is a video showing the power steering being controlled by a computer using CAN messages. We have also tapped into the throttle controls and speed sensors and can send messages to have the vehicle accelerate.

We Are Social

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We are now more social than ever, Grit Robotics can be found all three major social networks and soon videos can be found on YouTube! So chose the social network of choice and follow us using the links on the sidebar or below, or just follow us on all the networks. We will be posting all our Blog posts, 3D printing, links from the news, videos of Cog-Burn in action, and so much more as we work on our projects.

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Kairos Autonomi Visits Grit Robotics

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Kairos Autonomi and Grit Robotics recently met up for friendly facility tours and to show off some of their projects. The two teams are competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge to develop robots capable of assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters. Kairos Autonomi has full autonomous vehicle kits that they produce for various organizations, similarly Grit Robotics has experience building self driving vehicles. Both teams competed in the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2005. Below are some photos of the teams checking out each others great work.

New Website!

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Cog-Burn 3D ModelGrit Robotics just got an upgraded website! The site should now include more posts about what the Grit team is working on along with more updates about team members and Cog-Burn! While the site is live, it doesn’t mean we are done making all the changes so expect more updates and content to be added soon.