I found streaming video, and it was cool. Some of the robots (and we're talking fully autonomous cars, trucks, and ATVs) sprinted out of the starting gate and slammed into walls, some of them went a couple miles then flipped, another one based on a Humvee went off course and broke an axle, and so on.
My favorite team (the robot motorcycle) failed before it even launched, but the TerraMax team impressed me. Their vehicle was a multi thousand pound all terrain vehicle that barreled out of the starting gate and headed off into the desert, narrowly avoiding the barriers and obstacles.
They all failed this year, but next time it might be different.
I'm not sure why you guys think this is boring, these are totally autonomous. They aren't big R/C cars, they actually have to have enough smarts to coordinate radar, lidar, vison interpretation, sonar, etc.
