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Elon Musk has unveiled Tesla’s fully autonomous Cybercab robotaxi in a showy event at Warner Brothers. He also debuted a 20-seat Robovan that’s expected to follow, and sent a small fleet of Optimus humanoids out to party with the crowd.Continue Reading… Continue reading Wrap: Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Cybercab and Robovan
An underreported regulation being proposed in the United States could have a sweeping impact on car drivers in the country, and possibly other parts of the West. But the people feeling its immediate sting will be American motorcyclists.Continue Reading… Continue reading US considering ban on ‘connected vehicle’ tech with China/Russia ties
[Michelle Hampson] reports in IEEE Spectrum that Chinese researchers may improve self-driving cars by mimicking how the human eye works. In some autonomous cars, two cameras use polarizing filters to …read more Continue reading Self Driving Cars Learn from Our Eyes
Today’s best robotics courses offer hands-on experience with circuits, ROS, Lidar, and more. Continue reading The 6 Best Robotics Engineering Courses Worth Taking in 2024
We’re a tad late to the news on this one, but we’re no less excited to bring it to you heavy machinery nerds. Australia’s Fortescue is teaming up with Liebherr Mining to develop an autonomous mining truck that will, in addition to driving itself, be th… Continue reading Fortescue’s got a self-driving 240-ton hauler in the works
Toyota and Stanford University have been pushing self-driving technology beyond the limits of traction for several years now, and they’ve now released video of two autonomous cars drifting in tandem, getting very sideways with extreme precision.Continu… Continue reading Inches apart: Self-driving cars master extreme sideways driving skills
Vayu Robotics has today unveiled its first delivery robot. The One can follow staff around stores to load up customer orders, before autonomously navigating city streets at speeds up to 20 mph to deliver the goods. Commercial deployment has begun.Conti… Continue reading New delivery robot loads up in the supermarket aisle, then rolls to you
Self-driving cars are dependent on sophisticated sensors backed by lots of computing power. A research effort led by China’s Tsinghua University is cutting down on computing requirements with a tracking system that only requires a single pixel to do th… Continue reading Radically faster, cheaper 3D machine vision uses just a single pixel
Three weeks after one of Waymo’s autonomous vehicles drove itself into a telephone pole for no apparent reason whatsoever (prompting 672 cars recalled), Waymo has released a statement saying its AVs are still 200 to 350% better at avoiding crashes than… Continue reading Despite the headlines, Waymo says its driverless cars are 200% safer than you
Japanese researchers have released footage of a humanoid robot called Musashi sitting in the driving seat of an electric micro-car to examine a possible future direction for autonomous vehicle technologies.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, Technology… Continue reading Video: Humanoid chauffeur put in the driving seat for robotaxi future