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Robocar news: Waymo starts pilot in Phoenix, Apple car gets more real, and the flying car takes off

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 26 Apr 2017

Waymo (Google) has announced a pilot project in Phoenix offering a full ride service in their new minivans. Members of the public can sign up — the link is sure to be overwhelmed with applicants, bu...

Why are JIBO, Pepper, Siri, Google Now and Cortana so important?

Frank Tobe 16 Mar 2015

There's a race going on to see which AI solution providing personal assistance is welcomed by businesses, end users and consumers, and whether this will be physical or virtual....

Is Apple building a robocar? Maybe. Or maybe not.

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 05 Feb 2015

There is great buzz about some sensor-laden vehicles being driven around the USA, which have been discovered to be owned by Apple. The vehicles have cameras, LIDARs, and GPS antennas, and many are wo...

10,000 robots to be used on new iPhone 6

Frank Tobe 24 Jul 2014

MacRumors has done a roundup of iPhone 6 rumors, and reported that the new phone will come in two models: 4.7” and 5.5”, and will be released starting this September. The new phone will be fas...

Apple buys UK speech recognition firm Novauris to help improve Siri

Frank Tobe 04 Apr 2014

Voice recognition is a timely science not only because of all the human-automobile communication offered by car companies, but also by smart devices and their growing use of voice interf...

Brand strength, cultural influence of consumer-facing giants like Google, Apple and Amazon help legitimize robotics for businesses and investors

Dan Kara 04 Mar 2014

What is one to make of this focus series … Big Deals: What It Means to Have the Giants Investing in Robotics … with the giants being Google, Amazon and Apple (as given in the preamble)? The ass...

Big deals: What it means to have the giants investing in robotics

Hallie Siegel 12 Feb 2014

If the world outside the robotics community didn't know about Boston Dynamics, Kiva and Nest, they do now. Recent robotics acquisitions and investments by major-league players like Google, Apple a...

Alan Winfield on “What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics?”

Alan Winfield 12 Feb 2014

Judging by the levels of media coverage and frenzied speculation that has followed each acquisition, the short answer to what does it mean is: endless press exposure. I almost wrote 'priceless exp...

Mark Stephen Meadows on “What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics?”

Mark Stephen Meadows 12 Feb 2014

Google, is the wild card for me. With more acquisitions (DeepMind, Boston Dynamics, Redwood Robotics, Industrial Perception, Meka, Schaft, and others) than Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microso...

What do Google, Amazon, IBM, Apple, Microsoft and all the airlines and car companies want?

Frank Tobe 03 Feb 2014

They want to communicate more accurately, resolve issues faster and with higher levels of satisfaction than at present. They also want to enable more complex communication. And they want to do it amia...

Apple, Amazon and now Google: It’s a pretty exciting day for robotics!

Frank Tobe 14 Dec 2013

There is serious momentum in robotics these days, evidenced by recent news from Apple, Amazon and Google: Apple announced that they were investing $10.5 billion in supply chain robots and automati...

The future of Chinese-manufactured Apple products

Frank Tobe 30 Jan 2012

China's economic miracle has lifted countless millions of supremely poor people out of poverty. But this progress has come at a price. The Apple Corporation's experience in manufacturing its popular i...

The Future of Chinese-manufactured Apple Products

Frank Tobe 30 Jan 2012

Google’s response to Apple’s Siri: Buy Cleversense

Frank Tobe 19 Dec 2011

... Cleversense, a learning AI with a natural language processing front-end - and the developer of the popular Alfred personal assistant app - has been sold to Google for an undisclosed amount. ... Fe...

10 billion downloads from Apple App Store

Frank Tobe 24 Jan 2011

... Apple App Store phenomena continues beyond iPhones, iPads and iPods with apps for all Apple products. ... App Store concept being introduced to robotics - because it’s the right way to cust...

Autism, robotics and Apple’s iPad

Frank Tobe 28 Oct 2010

... An unintended consequence of the versatility, ease of use, size and colorfulness of Apple’s new iPad is its emerging use of with autistic children to help them communicate. One software app ...

The application of ‘elegance’ to machine behavior

John Payne 30 Jan 2010

We all have some idea of what elegance means, whether our notion of it is tied up with silky evening dresses, polished wood and brass, chandeliers and stained glass windows, exotic carpets, and expens...