High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A robotic competition is an event where robots have to accomplish a given task. Usually they have to beat other robots in order to become the best one. Most competitions are for schools but as time goes by, several professional competitions are arising. There is a wide variety of competitions for robots of various types. The following examples describe a few of the higher profile events. The DARPA Grand Challenge is a competition for driverless cars to traverse, in the shortest time possible, a path of pre-defined start and finish points. The unclaimed 2004 prize for navigating through the Mojave Desert was $1,000,000. The farthest any participant got was only 7.4 miles. However, the 2005 prize of $2,000,000 was claimed by Stanford University. In this race, four vehicles successfully completed the race. The 2007 competition pitted the vehicles against a mock-urban course with live traffic obstacles.

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