The great robot race
By: a NOVA production by New Wrinkle, Inc. for WGBH Boston ; produced by Joseph Seamans, Jason Spingarn-Koff ; written & directed by Joseph Seamans
Contributors: Lithgow, John, 1945-; WGBH Video (Firm)
Publisher: WGBH Boston Video
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Boston, MA]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Robotics; Mobile robots; Remotely piloted Vehicles; Off road vehicles x Miscellanea; Films for people with visual disabilities; United States. Department of Defense; United States
Other titles: Darpa grand challenge; Nova (Television program)
Description: The Defense Department is offering two million dollars to the builders of the first robotic vehicle to cover a 210-mile stretch of desert.  NOVA goes behind the scenes as top engineering teams struggle to solve the problems of making a vehicle like this.
Notes: Edited by David Cohen.

Narrated by John Lithgow.

Grade level: 7+

DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital, NTSC, letterboxed.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: All shapes and sizes; title: Robots with personality; title: Qualifying; title: The main event.