October 18, 2007As director of the U.S. government's research and development arm, Tony Tether hopes today's races will attract tomorrow's engineers and scientists.TAGS:Tony Tether, robot, obstacle, vehicle, R&D, race, California, course
October 10, 2005The team's robotic car, "Stanley," drove autonomously across 131.6 miles in the Mojave Desert in six hours and 53 minutes.
Photos: Robotic racersTAGS:Tony Tether, race, Stanford, vehicle, robot, mile, minute, car
November 5, 2007The Urban Challenge's competitive drama seeds the idea in people's minds that self-driving cars are possible.Photos: DARPA ChallengeTAGS:robotics, robot, Tony Tether, race, Stanford, car, bot