May 2nd, 2005

Within the next 10 years, the U.S. Department of Defense hopes to fully automate a third of its ground vehicles. Indianapolis-based high-tech entrepreneur Scott Jones has plans to one day sell the robot pilots the military needs to accomplish that mission.

But before he can build a business capable of attracting serious venture capital, he has to build a robot that can drive a Jeep Rubicon across 175 miles of the Mojave Desert in less than 10 hours. And he has to do it by October.

“We’ve already focused on the right problems,” Jones said. “I guarantee you if we perform well in this, we’ll have all sorts of opportunities. And come October, we’re going to have that seed-level startup.”

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