--May 11, 2005--
"Wow"! is what the DARPA Officials said when they saw Robo Monster drive up a mountain of sand at our site visit today. Three hours of questions and interest in all the imagineering that went into our entry to the DARPA Grand Challenge today. They snapped away taking pictures of Robo Monster and documenting the answers from our engineers. Despite some technical problems, Robo Monster definitely put on quite a display of promise. We await the June decisions and stay positive to see our name in the qualifiers from this days exciting results. Despite the outcome, all the entries are winners in the Grand Challenge in our book. Go Team Robo Monster!

--May 1, 2005--
Today marks three months of hard work by dedicated Team Robo Monster Members. Congratulations. So far, out of 195 Teams originally applying to the Darpa Grand Challenge, only 118 have made it to a Site Visit. Our "Big Inspection Day" is scheduled for May 11th from Noon to 4pm.

--April 29, 2005--
Kirby Engineering has created a good emergency stop system (using compressed air) and has put in the linear actuators for the transmission/2WD-4WD, as well as the steering motor and braking motor. Everything fits nicely and still leaves room for the driver position in the vehilce. This makes Robo Monster steering system to be used either manually, by remote control, or to drive autonomously using GPS waypoints. The sensory system will provide the vision for obstacle avoidance. So we are in the final stages to making May 11th a successful demonstatration as required by the DARPA Rules.

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