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    One million robots work in car industry worldwide – new record
      26 Mar 2023
    Automotive industry is a front runner in automation.

    Year end summary: Top Robocar stories of 2022
      10 Jan 2023
    Here's my annual summary of the top stories of the prior year. This time the news was a strong mix of bad and good.

    Researchers release open-source photorealistic simulator for autonomous driving
      22 Jun 2022
    MIT scientists unveil the first open-source simulation engine capable of constructing realistic environments for deployable training and testing of autonomous vehicles.
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    Autonomous Need for Speed, with Joe Speed

      08 Apr 2022
    Joe Speed, VP of Product at ApexAI, dives into the current multi-year development process of bringing a car to market, and how ApexAI will transform this process into the shorter development time we see with modern technology.
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    Autonomous Vehicles for Operational Logistics with Evocargo, with Oleg Shipitko

      07 Feb 2022
    Oleg Shipitko discusses Evocargo's approach to transform the way we transport goods within facilities such as ports and warehouses.

    California’s AV testing rules apply to Tesla’s “FSD”
    and   10 Jan 2022
    Tesla is testing its self-proclaimed “full self-driving” vehicles on California roads without complying with the testing requirements of California’s automated driving law.

    Showing robots how to drive a car… in just a few easy lessons
      27 Nov 2020
    By Caitlin Dawson USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from observing a small number of demonstrations....

    Tesla’s fatal crash
      26 Apr 2018
    Tesla can do better than its current public response to the recent fatal crash involving one of its vehicles. I would like to see more introspection, credibility, and nuance....

    Gallery of photos from CES 2018, and other news
      29 Jan 2018
    I have created a gallery in Google Photos with some of the more interesting items I saw at CES, with the bulk of them being related to robocars, robotic delivery and transportation....
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    Embedded Platform for SLAM, with Zhe Zhang

      20 Jan 2018
    In this episode Abate talks with Zhe Zhang from Perceptin where they are building embedded platforms for robots to do Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms in real time. Zhe explains...

    Tons of LIDARs at CES 2018
      17 Jan 2018
    When it comes to robocars, new LIDAR products were the story of CES 2018. Far more companies showed off LIDAR products than can succeed, with a surprising variety of approaches. CES is now the 5th lar...

    Top Robocar news of 2017
      04 Jan 2018
    Here are the biggest Robocar stories of 2017....

    The senate’s automated driving bill could squash state authority
      31 Oct 2017
    My previous post on the House and Senate automated driving bills (HB 3388 and SB 1885) concluded by noting that, in addition to the federal government, states and the municipalities within them also p...

    Congress’ automated driving bills are both more and less than they seem
      27 Oct 2017
    Bills being considered by Congress deserve our attention—but not our full attention. To wit: When it comes to safety-related regulation of automated driving, existing law is at least as important as...

    Robocars will make traffic worse before it gets better
      25 Oct 2017
    Many websites paint a very positive picture of the robocar future. And it is positive, but far from perfect. One problem I worry about in the short term is the way robocars are going to make traffic w...

    How to start with self-driving cars using ROS
      24 Oct 2017
    Self-driving cars are inevitable. In recent years, self-driving cars have become a priority for automotive companies. BMW, Bosch, Google, Baidu, Toyota, GE, Tesla, Ford, Uber and Volvo are investin...
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    High-Performance Autonomous Vehicles, with Chris Gerdes

      14 Oct 2017
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Chris Gerdes, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, about designing high-performance autonomous vehicles. The idea is to make vehicles sa...

    GM accepts all liability in robocars, and other news
      11 Oct 2017
    General Motors announced this week that they would “take full responsibility” if a crash takes place during an autonomous driving trip. This follows a pledge to do the same made some time ago by D...

    3 Questions: Iyad Rahwan on the “psychological roadblocks” facing self-driving cars
      12 Sep 2017
    by Peter Dizikes This summer, a survey released by the American Automobile Association showed that 78 percent of Americans feared riding in a self-driving car, with just 19 percent trusting the techn...

    SMART trials self-driving wheelchair at hospital
      26 Jul 2017
    Singapore and MIT have been at the forefront of autonomous vehicle development. First, there were self-driving golf buggies. Then, an autonomous electric car. Now, leveraging similar technology, MIT a...

    Federal regulations pass next hurdle
      21 Jul 2017
    This week's news is preliminary, but a U.S. house committee panel passed some new federal regulations which suggest sweeping change in the US regulatory approach to robocars....

    Robohub Digest 06/17: Robots in health and medicine, wheeling and dealing in the world of autonomous vehicles, and lots of new tech in action
      14 Jul 2017
    A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....

    Baidu’s self-driving tech plans revealed
      09 Jul 2017
    In the race to develop self-driving technology, Chinese Internet giant Baidu unveiled its 50+ partners in an open source development program, revised its timeline for introducing autonomous ...

    Simulated car demo using ROS Kinetic and Gazebo 8
      04 Jul 2017
    By Tully Foote We are excited to show off a simulation of a Prius in Mcity using ROS Kinetic and Gazebo 8. ROS enabled the simulation to be developed faster by using existing software and libraries...

    Can we test robocars the way we tested regular cars?
      30 Jun 2017
    I’ve written a few times that perhaps the biggest unsolved problem in robocars is how to know we have made them safe enough. While most people think of that in terms of government certification, the...

    Survey: Examining perceptions of autonomous vehicles using hypothetical scenarios
      26 Jun 2017
    I'm examining the perception of autonomous cars using hypothetical scenarios. Each of the hypothetical scenarios is accompanied with an image to help illustrate the scene -- using grey tones and nonde...

    It’s not just self-driving cars; trains could soon be autonomous too!
      20 Jun 2017
    Judging by the frequency that self-driving cars are mentioned in scientific discussions and the media, they are not only the next big thing, but might actually take over as our main means of transport...

    New laissez-faire robocar rules may arise
      19 Jun 2017
    While very few details have come out, Reuters reports that new proposed congressional bills on self-driving cars will reverse many of the provisions I critiqued in the NHTSA regulations last year....

    Uber regrouping after Levandowski firing
      12 Jun 2017
    Uber, the global ride-sharing transportation company, has named two replacements to recover from the recent firing of Anthony Levandowski who headed their Advanced Technologies Group, their OTTO truck...

    Engineers design drones that can stay aloft for five days
      09 Jun 2017
    In the event of a natural disaster that disrupts phone and Internet systems over a wide area, autonomous aircraft could potentially hover over affected regions, carrying communications payloads that p...

    VENTURER driverless car project publishes results of first trials
      05 Jun 2017
    VENTURER is the first Connected and Autonomous Vehicle project to start in the UK. The results of VENTURER preliminary trials show that the handover process is a safety critical issue in the developme...

    SoftBank invests $5 billion into Didi Chuxing and $4 billion more in Nvidia
      24 May 2017
    SoftBank, the giant telecom company, is venturing out into the world of robotics and transportation services. DealStreet Asia said that SoftBank is trying to transform itself into the 'Berkshire Hatha...

    On the future of human-centered robotics
      16 May 2017
    Science and technology are essential tools for innovation, and to reap their full potential, we also need to articulate and solve the many aspects of today’s global issues that are rooted in the pol...

    Transportation as a service (TaaS): A look ahead
      15 May 2017
    SoftBank Group just invested $5 billion in China's Didi Chuxing, China's biggest ride-sharing service. Last year Uber sold their China business to Didi resolving (by giving up) all the legal and antit...

    LIDAR vs RADAR: A detailed comparison
      09 May 2017
    I was recently asked about the differences between RADAR and LIDAR. I gave the generic answer about LIDAR having higher resolution and accuracy than RADAR. And RADAR having a longer range and performi...

    Dr Nathan Griffiths: Driverless cars? How the road to the future will be driven by machine learning
    and   01 May 2017
    Over the past few weeks, we’ve blogged about how machine learning is transforming research, nuclear decommissioning, and astronomy. Building on our “Ask the Experts” panel discussion on driverle...

     
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