Nissan opens Silicon Valley center for self-driving car research | Bloomberg

Nissan Motor Co. opened a research center in California’s Silicon Valley that the Japanese carmaker plans to make its hub for research on self-driving vehicles and Internet-connected auto technology...

22 February 2013, by Andra Keay

CMURobotics RI Seminar: Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions

As guest speaker for a CMURobotics RI Seminar, titled Lessons Learned Bootstrapping a Robotic Vehicle Company, Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions (Petersboro, Utah), describes how he got into robotics...

02 February 2013, by John Payne

Robotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012

The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our l...

26 December 2012, by David Pietrocola

SARTRE project concludes, reveals blissful future of car travel | IEEE Spectrum

Volvo has an operational system that lets cars you can buy today drive themselves on highways... Pertinent to the US, with the California autonomous vehicle legislation passing yesterday. See on spe...

26 September 2012, by Andra Keay

Google car zooms toward legal status | baycitizen.org

After lobbying by Google, California passes legislation to allow autonomous cars on highways. See on www.baycitizen.org...

25 September 2012, by Sabine Hauert

Study: Intelligent cars could boost highway capacity by 273% | IEEE Spectrum

See on m.spectrum.ieee.org...

10 September 2012, by Andra Keay

Stanford’s self-driving car tears it up on racetrack – tops 120 MPH | Singularity Hub

The current run through Thunderhill is another example of how Stanford and Volkswagen engineers are set on pushing robotic car performance to its limits, quite different from Google’s singular goal ...

19 August 2012, by Andra Keay

Google gets patent for driverless car

... Google was granted a US Patent “for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous vehicle from a human driven mode to an autonomously driven mode.” ... Now comes the endless red tape over safety, neg...

18 December 2011, by Frank Tobe

Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2OQxHNVLNY In this recently released TED talk, Dennis Hong from VirginiaTech presents all the recent developments of his RoMeLa Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory...

06 June 2011, by Ioannis K. Erripis

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Robots Podcast: Autonomous vehicles, with Alberto Broggi and Raul Rojas

Link to audio file (51:04) In today’s episode we take a deeper look at what’s behind the hype over autonomous vehicles, and talk to two experts in the field, Alberto Broggi, leader of the Vislab ...

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