EDI

2005

  • EDI (Extreme Deep Invader”)
    – nicknamed “Tin Man”
  • EDI was struck by lightning during a storm, its software and functioning began to change and it went rogue
  • UCAV (short for Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle)
  • first movie to be combined with a video game when it was released in the Sony PlayStation Portable’s UMD format

“Fear the Sky.”

Stealth (2005)

Alice

  • 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge 
  • 2005 Sportsmobile 4WD
  • highly-modified off-road Ford E350 van
  • California Institute of Technology’s autonomous Ford E350
  • GPSs
  • IMUs
  • two stereo vision camera pairs
  • up to three LADAR units
  • a magnetometer,
  • a road-following camera
  • all talking to up to fourteen blade server computers
  • mounted in a clean, climate-controlled, shock-mounted enclosure.