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How I Built This with Guy Raz

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The Rise and Fall of the Stanford Robotics Challenge

DARPA was sponsoring autonomous vehicles that could protect soldiers from, you know, being in harm's way. In 2004, not a single vehicle managed to go more than seven miles into the desert. There was a huge leap between what happened in 2004 and 2005,. You guys came in second to the Stanford team. What happened in that one year to make that leap in technology possible? Yeah.

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