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Waymo First to Put Completely Autonomous Car on Public Roads
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet has become the first company to put a car on the road. Not just any car, and not just on any road. But a fully autonomous vehicle without a safety driver on a public road in Arizona. The company will soon also begin…
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Court Filing Reveals Google Spent $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech
Google is keeping the financial details surrounding their self-driving technology efforts close to their chest. In fact, the cost of the project is hiding within the “other bets” category of their finances. However, that information is now available thanks to a simple paperwork mistake. A transcribed deposition of Waymo’s financial…
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Elon Musk and 116 Tech Experts Call for Autonomous Weapons Ban
Elon Musk‘s position on AI and by extension autonomous weapons is very much public knowledge at this point. Many in the robotics community have been critical of him as well. Even calling the SpaceX CEO paranoid and his views detrimental to progress. However, Musk is not alone in his fear…
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Self-Driving Wheelchairs Debut in Asian Airports and Hospitals
While everyone is busy arguing about the virtues of self-driving cars, roboticists in Asia have been working on bringing self-driving wheelchairs to the mainstream. Before even considering self-driving cars, applying self-driving concept to wheelchairs seems to be much more practical and easy to implement. In fact, Haneda Airport in Tokyo…
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GTA V Being Used to Train Autonomous Vehicle Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is being trained for autonomous vehicle driving using an unlikely tool: Grand Theft Auto V. While the game itself does not have an ultra-realistic physics engine for the AI to learn from, the blockbuster game allows for a multitude of vehicles to be used and its detailed driving…
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Meet Erica, the Most Advanced Autonomous Android Yet! (VIDEO)
Famed robotics expert Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro, together with his colleague Dr. Dylan Glas are introducing their latest creation Erica to the world. She is a life-like android, designed to look like a 23-year old Japanese woman with long hair and although she has limited mobility, has an autonomous artificial intelligence…
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Latest Version of Tesla’s Autopilot To Arrive Before New Year
Real-life Tony Stark aka Elon Musk has a present just in time for the holidays, hinting of a possible roll-out for Tesla’s autopilot before 2017 begins. The enigmatic CEO tweeted on December 22 that “(Tesla) might be ready to rollout most of Autopilot functionality for HW2 towards the end of…
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Self-Driving Cars With No Steering Wheel to Begin Testing in California
Self-driving cars have still got one major feature, a steering wheel. Until now, your car can drive for you, but you’re still able to take control at any moment or simply drive the car yourself. Now it seems fully autonomous cars will be hitting the streets of some public roads in Easy…
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NuTonomy Launches World’s First Self-Driving Taxi
When it comes to self-driving cars, everyone wants to build one. From Tesla with their autopilot function to Volvo making a deal with Uber to make a self-driving taxi fleet. The ability to step into your car and then step out after telling it simply where you want to go…
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Tesla Improving Autopilot With Even More Sensors
With all of the Tesla news regarding its autopilot feature, a system designed to take people from A to B with little to no human interaction, the system has come under recent scrutiny with several people holding it responsible for crashes and a death possibly being linked to the system. The…
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Drivers Slowly Warming up to Thought of Autonomous Cars on Our Roads
Ready or not, autonomous cars are likely coming to roads near you! Even as technology quickly accelerates, it’s still a very tall order to convince drivers about safety. There are certain locations in the United States, however, where autonomous cars received a warm reception: nine out of ten New Yorkers,…
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BMW Plans to Launch a New Electric Self-Driving Car in 2021
We all know that BMW is embracing the self-driving, electric car trend, and even though the i3 model unveiled in 2013 is enjoying some success, the company’s next vehicle will definitely be even more impressive. The sad news is that this model won’t be arriving until 2021 – a decision that…
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Car Makers Warn US Over Rules for Self-Driving Tech
It looks like car makers are not exactly pleased with the pace used by US officials to craft regulations regarding self-driving technologies. Usually, manufacturers would be pleased with regulations being released as swiftly as possible, but this time around they are being quite cautious, which is understandable considering how new the…
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Self-Driving Trucks Hit The Roads In Europe
When it comes to vehicles, there are two new technologies that people are looking forward to. First off there are electric vehicles, with Tesla’s new Model 3 getting billions of dollars worth of pre-orders, then there is the move to automated vehicles. With driverless vehicles gaining momentum, a set of…
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DARPA To Begin Testing Its Sub-Hunting Drone Ship
Technology is getting smarter, it is now getting to the point where technology can start doing things that would often require a human such as deliver pizzas. DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) is keen on seeing this automated technology makes its way into the battlefield. Recently DARPA revealed its Anti-submarine…
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