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Autonomous Need for Speed, with Joe Speed
Abate De Mey
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.
Showing robots how to drive a car… in just a few easy lessons
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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....
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Embedded Platform for SLAM, with Zhe Zhang
Abate De Mey
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...
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High-Performance Autonomous Vehicles, with Chris Gerdes
Audrow Nash
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
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
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...
SMART trials self-driving wheelchair at hospital
MIT News
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...
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
Alex Kirkpatrick
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....
SoftBank invests $5 billion into Didi Chuxing and $4 billion more in Nvidia
Frank Tobe
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...
LIDAR vs RADAR: A detailed comparison
Robots for Roboticists
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...
5 global problems that AI could help us solve
Alex Gray
10 Feb 2017
There’s a great deal of concern over artificial intelligence; what it means for our jobs, whether robots will one day replace us in the workplace, whether it will one day lead to robot wars. But cur...
Stakeholders likely to be disrupted by the changeover to self-driving vehicles
Frank Tobe
26 Apr 2016
Volumes have been written about the possible beneficial (and negative) effects of self-driving cars and systems. But few have studied what industries will be disrupted by the transformations as self-d...
First look at 2015 statistics on industrial robots from the IFR report
Frank Tobe
13 Feb 2016
A first look at numbers from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) report on industrial robots shows that worldwide robot sales grew again in 2015, and were 15% more than 2014. Explosive grow...
Toyota Research gets Kuffner, and Google gets Brondmo
Frank Tobe
18 Jan 2016
At a press conference last week at CES, Toyota, led by Gill Pratt of DARPA fame and now CEO of Toyota Research Institute (TRI), informed the world what Toyota intended to do with it's billion dollar...
Robocar news from CES 2016
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
13 Jan 2016
I’m back from CES 2016 with a raft of robocar news, some of which was reported before the show. Almost everybody in the robocar space had something to say — even if it was only to have something...
Tesla sends highway cruise update to recent Model S owners
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
16 Oct 2015
Though it's been anticipated for a few months now, Tesla announced yesterday the release of their highway cruise update for Model S cars from the last year....
Peloton Technology gets $17M for truck platooning tech
Frank Tobe
01 Sep 2015
Peloton Technology, a Silicon Valley startup providing truck platooning technology, got $17 million from strategic investors after receiving $16M this April. Denso Intl. was the lead investor in both...
194 Chinese robot companies
Frank Tobe
18 Aug 2015
In China, the robotics industry is booming. Companies are deploying thousands of robots in all types of factories, particularly in the auto industry. Chinese companies that manufacture robots and the...
Automated Vehicles Symposium recap (Part 2)
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
27 Jul 2015
From small beginnings, over 800 people are here at the Ann Arbor AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles symposium. Let’s summarize some of the news....
When do robocars become cheaper than standard cars? Automated Vehicle Symposium recap (Part 1)
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
24 Jul 2015
I’m in the Detroit area for the annual TRB/AUVSI Automated Vehicle Symposium. Those in Ann Arbor attended the opening of the new test track at the University of Michigan, but I was at a small event ...
As Google cars roll out, Deere reminds us of its thousands of self-driving tractors
Frank Tobe
28 Jun 2015
Google is putting 25 new self-driving cars onto the streets of Mountain View, California, but agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere reminds us that it already has tens of thousands of self-dr...
The social car: Simplifying autonomous action with Thing Theory
Sally Applin and Michael Fischer
10 Jun 2015
Automating vehicles simplifies operation for humans but also increases complexity. In order to negotiate a safe journey within a crowded transportation system, cars must communicate messages not only...
Programming safety into self-driving cars
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
06 Feb 2015
For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...
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...
Detroit Auto Show and more robocar news
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
19 Jan 2015
Robocar news continues after CES with announcements from the Detroit Auto Show (and a tiny amount from the TRB meeting.) Google doesn’t talk a lot about their car, so the address by Chris Urmson at...
Slow down that runaway ethical trolley
Bryant Walker Smith
13 Jan 2015
The runaway trolley has chased automated motor vehicles into the new year.
In early 2012, I raised a variation of the classic thought experiment to argue that there is not always a single absolu...
CES 2015: The ‘amazing’ autonomous Mercedes
Paul Godsmark
12 Jan 2015
The unveiling of the long sleek Mercedes Benz F 015 at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES 2015) in Las Vegas was quite something. It was amazing. Mercedes told us that they have been developing autonom...
Robocars at CES: BMW
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
09 Jan 2015
Day 3 at CES started with a visit to BMW’s demo. They were mostly test driving new cars like the i3 and M series cars, but for a demo, they made the i3 deliver itself along a planned corridor. It wa...
Robocars at CES: Supervised traffic jam assist
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
08 Jan 2015
After a short day looking at robocars at CES, a more full day was full of the usual equipment — cameras, TVs, audio and the like and visits to several car booths....
Robocars at CES: Mercedes concept
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
07 Jan 2015
There is reasonable volume of robocar related stuff to see here at CES. I just had a few hours today, and went to see the much touted Mercedes F105 “Luxury in Motion.” This is a concept, and no...
Impact of robocars perceived as net positive even if jobs are displaced
Open Roboethics Initiative
15 Sep 2014
Will robots take away our jobs? Will we be better off with robots even if they do?
One Forbes article published last year by Chunka Mui focused the jobs issue on autonomous cars. In the article tit...
Readers support cars that communicate and self-organize
Open Roboethics Initiative
01 Sep 2014
The conventional cars that we drive today don’t really talk to one another. Sure, some of them connect to your cellphones and mp3 players. But they don’t form a communication network with neighbou...
Reader poll: How do you feel about “Swarms of Autonomous Cars”?
Open Roboethics Initiative
19 Aug 2014
A few of days ago, WIRED and Robohub covered a story about “Largest Swarm of Robots” and how self-organizing algorithms can be used by robots to form certain shapes. This inspired us to see wha...
If drinking and driving, ride the car that doesn’t need your input or let it go home w/o you
Open Roboethics Initiative
18 Aug 2014
For the past few months the Open Roboethics initiative and Robohub have explored the topic of autonomous cars in the form of biweekly polls. We were able to find out a lot of interesting facts about w...
Reader poll: Should an autonomous car be able to drive w/o a human passenger?
Open Roboethics Initiative
05 Aug 2014
A couple of months ago, we asked our readers whether three different unlicensed groups of individuals should be able to ride in autonomous cars alone. The individuals were: a child under the legal dr...
Readers split on whether they will miss driving their non-autonomous car
Open Roboethics Initiative
04 Aug 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-MGQqaY3eo
Driving has become an integral component of our daily lives, especially in developed countries. Cars are not just a means for us to get from point A to p...
