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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: observation
6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company
“We got to rewind back all the way to 2004, the DARPA Grand Challenge, which was created as a way to spur research into autonomous ground robots for military use.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Recorded
- 6 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
Transcript context
…Please tell us the Waymo story. Awesome. We got to rewind back all the way to 2004, the DARPA Grand Challenge, which was created as a way to spur research into autonomous ground robots for military use. Actually what it did for our purposes here today is create the seed talent for the entire self-driving car revolution 20 years later. The competition itself is really cool. There is a 132 mile race course. Now, mind you, this is 2004 in the Mojave Desert that the cars have to race on. It is a dirt road. No humans are allowed to be in or interact with the cars. There are monitored 100% remotely, and the winner gets $1 million. $1 million.…
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