Team Description* |
We believe the Golem Group best exemplifies the kind of
nontraditional entrepreneurial team that was the
original target of the DARPA Grand Challenge. We began
in the first Grand Challenge as a motley group of
scientists and tinkerers in a garage with a shoestring
budget, yet we scraped together a vehicle which
challenged or outperformed heavily-funded efforts by
major research universities and defense contractors. On
the strength of that showing, we were ourselves able to
garner some university support (from UCLA) and build a
much more sophisticated vehicle for the second Grand
Challenge. Now, with the prospect of DARPA funding, we
are ready to enter the Urban Challenge as an independent
company of full-time research staff. |
