Submitted by Massimo Bertozzi

VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge

The World Expo 2010 that will be held in Shanghai, China, is the third most relevant worldwide event after the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, 70 millions of visitors from all over the world are expected to visit the Expo. This year’s theme is “better cities, better life”; issues related to sustainable mobility are indeed central to the Expo, which will be a display of new ideas developed worldwide in this field.

VisLab is going to participate to the Expo with a project, partially funded by ERC - European Research Council- that will show that it is possible, although in a prototype version, to move goods between two continents with non-polluting vehicles powered by green energy and with virtually no human intervention. Some goods will be packed in Rome, some collected throughout the trip, and finally taken to Shanghai on vehicles with no driver for the first time in history.