
A self-driving car speeding through the Mojave Desert
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
A U.S. military program has begun testing an automated all-terrain vehicle without a human driver. It shows how robotic vehicles can traverse rough terrain dotted with dangerous obstacles.
Off-road robots zipped through the Mojave Desert at the U.S. Army National Training Center, navigating steep hills and ditches, avoiding rocks and trees. Irwin, California. This was his third experiment for a project overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), but…