DARPA has already decided that the following six Urban Challenge Teams demonstrated sufficient driving savvy to be invited to Saturday’s final event:
- Team Cornell
- Stanford Racing Team
- Tartan Racing (Carnegie Mellon)
- VictorTango (Virginia Tech)
- CarOLO (Track B)
- Ben Franklin Racing Team (Track B)
Of these teams, CarOLO and Ben Franklin Racing Team had not been awarded DARPA grants to develop their robots. All others had been eligible for up to $1M in development funds in the Track A program.
Conversely, DARPA has also decided that the following teams are not in contention for Saturday’s final event:
- The Golem Group (Track A)
- Mojavation
- Team Caltech (Track A)
- Team Jefferson
- Team Urbanator
- Gator Nation
- Team Juggernaut
- Georgia Tech / SAIC Sting Racing
- Ody-Era
- SciAutonics/Auburn Engineering
- Team Berlin
- University of Utah
- Princeton
- Axion Racing
Of the aforementioned teams, two are Track A teams. DARPA had awarded the Track A teams a grant of up to $1M in development funds while Track B teams funded their own development efforts.
This leaves the following 15 teams in contention for the remaining 14 finalist slots:
- OSU-ACT
- Team UCF
- Insight Racing
- Intelligent Vehicle Systems
- Team Oshkosh Truck
- Team CajunBot
- Team Case
- Team Gray
- Austin Robot Technology
- Team Autonomous Solutions
- Team-LUX
- Team Cybernet
- Team AnnieWay
- Avantguardium
- MIT
One of these teams might be dropped from the final lineup. In 2005, DARPA announced a last minute additional slot to the finalist roster. It’s possible that DARPA will do the same this year which would mean that all of the teams that have not been explicitly eliminated already will be in Saturday’s final run.
