Home News CajunBot Updates Robocars premiers tonight on Discovery's Science Channel
Robocars premiers tonight on Discovery's Science Channel PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 14 July 2008 21:05

The series "Robocars" will be premiering tonight at 9pm (Central time) on the Discovery Science Channel.  The show follows ten teams of top engineers from around the U.S. compete for a $2 million grand prize, struggling to build the first vehicle to drive itself through an urban environment and features Team CajunBot. Here is the schedule and episode descriptions:

July 14th 9-10pm - Episode 1 - follows Stanford Racing, Tartan Racing, Team Jefferson, Team Gray and The Golem Group as they prepare for the Urban Challenge and pass through the DARPA site visits.

July 21st 9-10pm - Episode 2 - follows Highlander Racing, Team Oshkosh, Team Cajunbot, Team MIT, and Team Case as they prepare for the Urban Challenge and pass through the DARPA site visits.  The show ends with DARPA announcing the teams who made it to the semi-finals.

July 28th 9-10pm - Episode 3 - covers the semi-finals.  Stanford Racing, Tartan Racing, Team Jefferson, Team Gray, The Golem Group, Team Oshkosh, Team Cajunbot, Team MIT and Team Case are all included.  The show ends with DARPA announcing the teams who made it to the finals.

August 4th 9-10pm - Epiosde 4 - covers the finals.  Stanford Racing, Tartan Racing, Team MIT, and Team Oshkosh are all included.

August 11th  8-10pm - Episodes 5 and 6 - The first hour is a summary of the last four episodes and the second hour focuses on futuristic car technology and contains excerpt from the DARPA Urban Challenge.

Listings are available here.

Last Updated on Monday, 14 July 2008 21:14
 
Copyright © 2010 CajunBot Labs. All Rights Reserved.
Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.
 

Sponsors

Banner

Who's Online

We have 6 guests online