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Team Case has been selected to be one of ten teams featured in a Discovery Channel
documentary about the DARPA Urban Challenge. Stay tuned for more information.
Press Releases
11/14/07: NorTech Announces 2007 Innovation Award Winners
11/2/07: Team Case Finishes in Top 20 of DARPA Urban Challenge
11/1/07: Dexter, Team Case finish in top 20 of DARPA Urban Challenge – DARPA accepts only 11 teams to compete in the final race
10/26/07: Cleveland's other playoff team: “DEXTER” and Team Case are California Dreamin' – Case School of Engineering's robotic car arrives in fire-ravaged Southern California to compete in semifinals of $3.5 million DARPA Urban Challenge
10/19/07: Cleveland's Other Playoff Team Heads to the Semi-Finals
8/9/07: “Dexter,” Case Western Reserve University's robotic vehicle, advances to semifinals of 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge – Case School of Engineering students and faculty celebrate as Team Case is chosen to vie for $2 million first prize
8/9/07: DARPA Announces 36 Semi-Finalists For Urban Challenge (PDF) – Autonomous
Vehicle Competition to be Held in Victorville, Calif.
6/22/07: Team Case qualifies for site visit by organizers of U.S. Department Of Defense Robotic Ground Vehicle Competition – Site visit will demonstrate capability of Case Western Reserve University's DEXTER to DARPA Urban Challenge organizers
5/11/07: DARPA Urban Challenge Site Visits Announced (PDF) – 53 Teams Advance in Qualification Process
4/9/07: Research ShowCASE 2007: The Future is Now – Live Demonstrations & Posters
3/30/07: Case Western Reserve University engineering students and faculty to enter Darpa Urban Challenge for first time
2/28/07: Dexter on Display at the Cleveland Auto Show
2/23/07: Dexter, the Engineering School's Autonomous Vehicle, on Display at Auto Show
10/18/07: DARPA Finalizes Field of Participants for 2007 Urban Challenge (PDF) – Announcement of Track B Teams Expands Field to 89 Competitors
10/4/07: DEXTER Goes to College
Team Case in the News
The Cleveland Plain Dealer:
NorTech recognizes NE Ohio innovators by Shaheen Samavati, 11/14/07, pg. C3
Team Case robot eliminated from military contest by Leila Atassi, 11/2/07, pg. B5
Case team to take robot to semifinals by Dan X. McGraw, 8/10/07, pg. B5
Dexter's dandy driving by John Mangels, 6/23/07
Dexter, the robot, on the move to playoffs by John Mangels, 5/12/07, pg. B1
Case robot car rolls on by John Mangels, 5/11/07
Robotic automobile's driving skills put to test by John Mangels, 4/16/07, pg. A1
Case's Dexter (the robot car) steers toward fame, fortune by John Mangels, 2/25/07, pg. A1
WIRED.COM: – Danger Room
Organ Donation for Robot Car, by Michael Belfiore, 10/31/07, 12:30 PM
Crain's Cleveland Business:
NorTech reveals Innovation Award winners, by Chuck Soder, 11/13/07
At the drawing board with Team Case, by Brad Dicken, 6/25/07, Vol. 28, No. 25
MOTOR Magazine:
Newsbreak – MOTOR Writer Helps Robotic Vehicle Take to the Streets, by Sam Bell, Jan. 2008, pg. 55–59 (PDF version with images, 76 Kb)
FOX 8 NEWS – Cleveland – Kickin' It With Kenny:
Brainiacs Show Kenny Brilliant Things, Kenny Crumpton interviews Andrew Allen at
Research ShowCASE, 4/12/07
WEWS NewsChannel5 – Cleveland-Akron:
Robots Will Be Part Of Case Showcase, Alicia Booth interviews Professors Wyatt
Newman and Roger Quinn, 3/5/07
WCPN FM 90.3 – The Sound of Ideas:
Meet Dexter - The Robotic Car, Dan Moulthrop interviews Team Leader Wyatt Newman
and Graduate Student Andrew Allen, 6/13/07
WMJI Majic 105.7 – Lanigan & Malone:
Eric Cottington and Andy Allen from Case in studio discussing the 5th Annual
Research ShowCASE (MP3 podcast), interview from 14:55 to 25:00, 4/10/07
CoolCleveland.com – Serious Fun:
Research ShowCASE @ Veale Convocation Center, CWRU 4/12, Susan Schaul,
4/18/07–4/25/07
TG Daily:
Video: Qualification runs begin at Urban Challenge, by Humphrey Cheung,
10/27/07, 1:30 PM
SAE Cleveland Section Newsletter:
DARPA Urban Challenge: CWRU's Dexter, September 2007, Vol. 20, No. 1
CASE Engineering Magazine:
Team Case Is Up To The Challenge (PDF): engineering students & faculty work together
to build autonomous vehicle, Spring 2007, Vol. 5, No. 2, pg. 10–11
Grad Matters – The drive to win (PDF): one student's experience with Team Case and the
DARPA Urban Challenge, Spring 2007, Vol. 5, No. 2, pg. 12–13
The Observer – The student newspaper of Case Western Reserve University:
Team Case just misses finals during first year of DARPA Urban Challenge by Misia Yuhasz, 11/9/07
Team Case enters semifinals of automated vehicle challenge by Anne Lloyd, 8/31/07
Case's robot car on display at Cleveland Auto Show by Stanley Evans, 3/2/07
Case enters DARPA challenge by Alison Dietz, 11/10/06
Past Media Events
9/10/07: DEXTER was demonstrated to the Cleveland section of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) at Case's Squire Valleevue Farm.
7/21/07–7/22/07: DEXTER was featured at the 2007 Cleveland Ingenuity Fest.
6/22/07: Team Case successfully completed its DARPA-required Site Visit at the
Transportation Research Center, East Liberty, OH.
6/9/07: Team Case demonstrated DEXTER for alumni and friends at our West Quad
test area.
4/11/07–4/12/07: Team Case showed off DEXTER at Research ShowCASE 2007.
2/24/07–3/4/07: DEXTER was a big hit at the 2007 Cleveland Auto Show.

Please email caseurbanchallenge@case.edu for more information.