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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2005--Engineers from Smiths Aerospace and the University of Florida's Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics (CIMAR) have developed a fully robotic and cost-efficient car that today begins competing in qualification rounds for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge.

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The Smiths Aerospace and University of Florida robotic vehicle; navigational technology currently used on land to be tested 'unmanned' in the DARPA Grand Challenge. (Photo: Business Wire)

The Grand Challenge is an endurance race across the Mojave Desert in which unmanned, fully autonomous ground vehicles must drive themselves 175 miles through cha. . .