Anaheim, California – Team Cybernet, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was chosen today as a semifinalist in DARPA’s third Grand Challenge. The 2007 Urban Challenge is the latest in the series of DARPA-sponsored competitions intended to foster the development of robotic ground vehicle technologies that function without a human operator, which are intended for battlefield use by the U.S. military.
Team Cybernet is led by Cybernet Systems Corporation and includes other prominent Michigan companies and universities as partners. Cybernet Systems CEO Heidi Jacobus said of her team’s success, “Performance in the Urban Challenge requires innovations and advances in robotics. We are working to make Congress’s mandate ‘By 2015, one-third of the operational combat vehicles should be unmanned’ a reality. We want to deliver robotic vehicles to the troops to keep them out of harm’s way – now.”
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