This is more the sort of thing I expect to see autonomous vehicles doing soon. I think the big benefit from the DARPA Grand Challenge will be the development of large payload (at least compared to flying drones) autonomous resupply vehicles.
The mission planner software for the Powered Sherpa looks rudimentary, but there's probably not much fanciness required:
Posted by jjwiseman at November 09, 2004 04:23 PM