Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams competing in DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge, a race of driverless vehicles on mock city streets scheduled for November 3.
The team is fine-tuning "Alice"--a heavily modified 8,000-pound Ford E-350 van reinforced with armor plating--for the Urban Grand Challenge semifinal round on October 26 in Victorville, Calif., at the site of the former George Air Force Base.
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