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One million robots work in car industry worldwide – new record
International Federation of Robotics (IFR)
26 Mar 2023
Automotive industry is a front runner in automation.
Year end summary: Top Robocar stories of 2022
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
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
MIT News
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
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.
California’s AV testing rules apply to Tesla’s “FSD”
Bryant Walker Smith and CIS Blog
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
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....
Tesla’s fatal crash
Bryant Walker Smith
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
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
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
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...
Tons of LIDARs at CES 2018
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
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
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
04 Jan 2018
Here are the biggest Robocar stories of 2017....
The senate’s automated driving bill could squash state authority
Bryant Walker Smith
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
Bryant Walker Smith
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
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
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
Ricardo Téllez
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
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...
3 Questions: Iyad Rahwan on the “psychological roadblocks” facing self-driving cars
MIT News
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
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...
Federal regulations pass next hurdle
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
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
Alex Kirkpatrick
14 Jul 2017
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Baidu’s self-driving tech plans revealed
Frank Tobe
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
Open Source Robotics Foundation
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?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
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...
It’s not just self-driving cars; trains could soon be autonomous too!
Andreas Kunze
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
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
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....
VENTURER driverless car project publishes results of first trials
UWE Bristol
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
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...
Transportation as a service (TaaS): A look ahead
Frank Tobe
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
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...
Dr Nathan Griffiths: Driverless cars? How the road to the future will be driven by machine learning
The Royal Society and Will Kay
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...
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...
Looking ahead to the future of computer-driven cars
MIT News
21 Apr 2017
The field of transportation is undergoing a seismic shift with the introduction of autonomous driving — or computer-driven cars. Computer vision scientist and Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua PhD ...
Luminar unstealths their 1.5 micron LIDAR
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
15 Apr 2017
Luminar, a bay area startup, has revealed details on their new LIDAR. Unlike all other commercial offerings, this is a LIDAR using 1.5 micron infrared light. They hope to sell it for $1,000....
No, Detroit is not winning the robocar race
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
05 Apr 2017
A new report from Navigant Research includes the chart shown below, ranking various teams on the race to robocar deployment. It’s causing lots of press headlines about how Ford is the top company an...
LIDAR (lasers) and cameras together: Which is more important?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
29 Mar 2017
Recently we’ve seen a series of startups arise hoping to make robocars with just computer vision, along with radar. That includes recently unstealthed AutoX, the off-again, on again efforts of comma...
