By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: June 5, 2007, 12:01 PM PDT
People in downtown Ithaca, N.Y., got a glimpse this spring of the vehicular equivalent of a headless horseman--a Chevy Tahoe gutted and modified with computers, wire controls and sensors so that it can drive city streets by itself.
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Leonard specifically wants to build a robot that can operate forever autonomously, capable of dealing with change in the world. From an algorithm perspective, he said, that means building sophisticated maps of a fluid world.
"We're tremendously advanced in mapping static environments, but there's been very little progress in mapping dynamic environments. To reason about them and make intelligent decisions about things that are moving in the world--that's the challenge."
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