Official site has contest description and results, photo galleries, and media resources. Also has archives for the 2004 and 2005 Grand Challenge events.

Overview of the event.

Teams from across the country launched 40 robots yesterday on a 150-mile trek through the Nevada desert. The Pentagon's advanced research agency will pay $2 million to the winner. Last year, no robot finished the course. [4:43 streaming audio broadcast]

Renee Montagne talks with Michael Griffis, owner of Eigenpoint Company. Griffis helped design a robot that is competing in this year's DARPA Grand Challenge. [3:02 streaming audio broadcast]

Wired News article about the Carnegie-Mellon entrant Sandstorm was written before the 2004 event