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    Robohub roundtable: Cybathlon and advancements in prosthetics
    The Olympics in Rio may be over, but athletes around the world are gearing up for a new type of competition. Cybathlon, known as the cyborg Olympics, coming up on 8 October in the SWISS Arena in Klote...
    13 September 2016, by

    Cybathlon: A bionics competition for people with disabilities
    Millions of people worldwide rely on orthotics, prosthetics, wheelchairs and other assistive devices to improve their quality of life. In the United States alone, there are more than 1.6 million peopl...
    06 September 2016, by

    From flying shuttles to rolling robots, automated supply chains are almost here
    From Amazon’s delivery drones to self-driving cars, autonomous factory equipment to Elon Musk’s 760 mph vacuum tubes – automated vehicles are on the rise. Even beyond the grounds of pri...
    02 September 2016, by

    Taking measure of artificial intelligence and the Turing Test
    As far as party games go, the Imitation Game is a pretty clever and fairly entertaining one. A man and a women answer questions as if they were the other, trying to fool party guests into guessing the...
    31 August 2016, by

    Regulations on civilian drones in the US and Europe, what do they involve?
    With new markets on the horizon, regulations governing civilian drones are currently being adapted in Europe and the US. What will these new regulations entail? And how well will they protect people a...
    31 August 2016, by and

    The Robot Economy: Interview with Alan Winfield
    Robots and their impact on the economy is on the forefront of everyone’s mind. Will robots increase productivity and jobs, improve society, and will wealth be shared? To address this question, we’...
    24 August 2016, by



    Robocar recap: Uber buys Otto, folks leave Google, Ford goes big, Tesla drops MobilEye
    Brad Templeton, from Robocars.com, discusses the latest robocar related news....
    23 August 2016, by

    50 different state regulations for robocars is not a bad idea
    At the recent AUVSI/TRB conference in San Francisco, there was talk of upcoming regulation, particularly from NHTSA. Secretary of Transportation Foxx and his NHTSA staff spoke with just vague hints ab...
    18 August 2016, by

    Will robocars be heaven or hell for our cities?
    Robin Chase wrote an article wondering if robocars will improve or ruin our cities and asked for my comment on it. It’s a long article, and I have lots of comment, since I have been considering thes...
    15 August 2016, by

    Survey: Evaluate ethics of health related privacy with care robots
    Future Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) should be safe, but patients also have a right to privacy, liberty and social contact. The survey investigates, in a hypothetical scenario, how Annie's SAR s...
    12 August 2016, by and

    Robocar platooning, or just carpool?
    At the recent AUVSI/TRB symposium, a popular research topic was platooning for robocars and trucks. Platooning is perhaps the oldest practical proposal when it comes to car automation because you can ...
    12 August 2016, by

    The dark side of ethical robots
    When I was interviewed on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme in 2014, Justin Webb's final question was, "If you can make an ethical robot, doesn't that mean you could make an unethical robot?" The ans...
    09 August 2016, by

    Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux: Some expected, some strange
    Today, I want to look at some implications of Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux which caused some buzz this week. There was other news, of course, including the AUVSI/TRB meeting which I attended, and ...
    26 July 2016, by

    How science can help us make AI more trustworthy
    Stories about racist Twitter accounts and crashing self-driving cars can make us think that artificial intelligence (AI) is a work in progress. But while these headline-grabbing mistakes reveal the fr...
    22 July 2016, by

    Robots for a sustainable future
    Climate change is one of the greatest issues facing the world today. With temperatures rising to their highest point in 4,000 years due to human activity and monthly average carbon dioxide levels exce...
    15 July 2016, by

    Carpool apps are on the rise, let’s make transfer points and roads to help
    The cell phone ride hail apps like Uber and Lyft are now reporting great success with actual ride-sharing, under the names UberPool, LyftLines and Lyft Carpool. In addition, a whole new raft of apps t...
    15 July 2016, by

    Relax, we’re not living in a computer simulation
    Ever since Elon Musk's recent admission that he's a simulationist, several people have asked me what I think of the proposition that we are living inside a simulation. My view is very firmly that the...
    13 July 2016, by

    Understanding the massive gulf between the Tesla Autopilot and a real robocar, in light of the crash
    Brad Templeton describes Tesla’s Autopilot as a 'distant cousin of a real robocar' that primarily uses a MobilEye EyeQ3 camera combined with radars and ultrasonic sensors. Unlike robocar sensors, T...
    11 July 2016, by

    Starship delivery robots getting ready to deliver in London, Germany, Bern
    At Starship, we announced our first pilot projects for robotic delivery which will begin operating this summer. We’ll be working with a London food delivery startup Pronto as well as German parcel c...
    07 July 2016, by

    Should Tesla disable your Autopilot if you’re not diligent? Plus, a survey of robocar validation
    In this article, Brad Templeton provides a rundown of different approaches for validation of self-driving and driver assist systems, a recommendation to Tesla and others to have countermeasures to det...
    06 July 2016, by

    Man dies while driven by Tesla Autopilot
    A Tesla blog post describes the first fatality involving a self drive system. A Tesla was driving on autopilot down a divided highway. For unknown reasons, a truck crossed the highway (something m...
    30 June 2016, by

    Designing simple, cheap cars of the future
    What does that car of the future look like? There is no one answer; in this world, the car that is sent to pick you up can be tailored for your trip. The more people traveling, the bigger the car. If ...
    17 June 2016, by

    Caring for robots: How assistive robotics may change our homes
    Who will care for us in the future? According to many politicians, scientists and market analysts, it could be machines. Machines that will change our diapers, and spend time with us once we are old....
    15 June 2016, by

    Letting policymakers handle the trolley problem
    When I give talks on robocars the most common question asked is the one known as the “trolley problem” question. That is: “what will the car do if it has to choose between killing one person or ...
    10 June 2016, by

    How much can customers test robocars?
    Reports from Tesla suggest they are gathering massive amounts of driving data from logs in their cars — 780 million miles of driving, and as much as 100 million miles in autopilot mode. This contras...
    07 June 2016, by

    An alternative to specific regulations for robocars: A liability doubling
    Can our emotional fear of machines, and the call for premature regulation, be mollified by a temporary increase in liability which takes the place of specific regulations to keep people safe? So fa...
    02 June 2016, by

    Robocar news around the globe: Tesla crash, Declaration of Amsterdam, and automaker services
    We have the first report of a real Tesla autopilot crash. To be fair to Tesla, their owner warnings specify very clearly that the autopilot could crash in just this situation. In the video, there is ...
    01 June 2016, by

    Self-driving trucks are coming — what will that mean?
    Today sees the un-stealthing of a new company called Otto which plans to build self-driving systems for long haul trucks. The company has been formed by a skilled team, including former members of Goo...
    18 May 2016, by

    The coming nightmare for the car industry
    I have often written on the challenge facing existing automakers in the world of robocars. They need to learn to completely switch their way of thinking in a world of mobility on demand, and not all o...
    11 May 2016, by

    Where’s Susi? Airborne orangutan tracking with python and react.js
    You are faced with a few thousand hectares of rainforest that you know harbours one or more orangutans that you need to track down. Where, how, and why do you start looking?...
    27 April 2016, by

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