<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bc0b7a70-7df2-471b-bdee-7a6cd6764477/6EFCF64B-3036-4EAF-8F7F-77094AE306F0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10000921-2.html?tag=mncol" href="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10000921-2.html?tag=mncol" style="font-size: 11px;">news.cnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10000921-2.html?tag=mncol"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.cnet.com/img/59590A9E-AF82-4285-AD26-4E692FA3EABC" alt="Alice" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10000921-2.html?tag=mncol"><DIV aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"></P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Here's one thing that's always true of university robotics programs: they aren't cheap to run. This car, "<A aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" href="http://news.cnet.com/Caltechs-spin-on-DARPAs-robot-race/2100-11394_3-6209954.html">Alice</A>," was the California Institute of Technology's entry for the <A aria-level="0" title="Photos: On the road to robot race -- Thursday, Oct 4, 2007" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" href="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11394_3-6211534-1.html" context="com.caucho.jsp.PageContextImpl@7f1f41e3">2007 DARPA Urban Challenge</A>. </P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">A modified Ford F-350, Alice chalked up a bill of about $700,000 in the year before the race, when staff salaries were factored in (the team had roughly 50 people on it). The project had sponsorship from Caltech itself, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Applanix.</P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"></P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Photo by</STRONG> Stefanie Olsen/CNET</P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Caption by</STRONG> Caroline McCarthy </P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6EFCF64B-3036-4EAF-8F7F-77094AE306F0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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