The New Wave

Photo of engineering students with their robot car Photo of the robot car Photo of the robot car in action
Kat-5, a high-tech, automated Ford Escape hybrid SUV, motored onto the Tulane campus this week for an appearance near the Boggs Building. A group of Tulane engineering students helped design the car, which came in fourth in the DARPA Grand Challenge on Oct. 8. Shown with the car, from left, are students Powell Kinney, Matt Dooner, Jorge Nagel and Paul Trepagnier. Only 5 teams out of 23 competitors made it to the finish line of the auto-piloted race, held in the Mojave Desert.