Oct 29, 2017 | Autonomous Cars, Robotic Software
A safety exemption for self-driving cars is advancing in Congress. Congress is moving ahead with plans to let self-driving cars be tested on U.S. roads without having to comply with the same safety rules as regular vehicles. This move to test autonomous vehicles on...
Oct 29, 2017 | Construction Robots, Latest Robotics News
This robotic fabricator could change the way buildings are constructed: A construction robot has to be powerful enough to handle heavy material, small enough to enter standard buildings, and flexible enough to navigate the terrain. Robots revolutionized the automotive...
Oct 29, 2017 | Autonomous Cars, Robotic Software
This company is crowdsourcing maps for self-driving cars; mapping the streets for self-driving cars to follow: I went for a drive in San Francisco’s Mission District last month. It was late morning, and there wasn’t much traffic. As I wended my way through the side...
Oct 14, 2017 | AI and Deep Learning, Latest Robotics News
China is doubling down on AI. China looks set to make larger waves than ever in artificial intelligence and augmented reality. The nation’s search giant, Baidu, is leading the charge. Already a leader in AI research, it has now announced that former Microsoft...
Oct 14, 2017 | AI and Deep Learning, How Robots Think
AI Begins to Understand the 3-D World: AI researchers are moving beyond two-dimensional images and pixels. Instead they’re building systems capable of picturing the three-dimensional world and taking action. The work could have a big impact on robotics and...
Oct 14, 2017 | AI and Deep Learning, Latest Robotics News
In hacker circles, the “Internet of Things” is often the object of derision. Do we really need the IoT toaster? But there’s one phrase that — while not new — is really starting to annoy me in its current incarnation: AI or Artificial Intelligence. The problem isn’t...
Oct 14, 2017 | Domestic Robots, Helper Robots
This Robot Will Carry Your Stuff And Follow You Around: Inside an industrial building in Somerville, Massachusetts, I’m watching a robot follow someone around like an eager puppy. The light-blue robot, called Gita, is almost spherical, with two wheels about the size...
Oct 12, 2017 | Autonomous Cars, Latest Robotics News
California DMV Changes Rules to Allow Testing of Fully Autonomous Vehicles: The California Department of Motor Vehicles is changing its rules to allow companies to test autonomous vehicles without a driver behind the wheel — and to let the public use autonomous...
Oct 12, 2017 | Autonomous Cars, Latest Robotics News
Failed Palo Alto Startup Pivots From Trying To Be ‘Android-Killer’ To Creating Self-Driving Tech: The company now known as Cyngn has changed its name from Cyanogen and recently got a permit to test its self-driving tech on California roads, according to a...
Oct 12, 2017 | AI and Deep Learning, Facial and Image Recognition
AI Software Juggles Probabilities To Learn From Less Data — Machine learning is becoming extremely powerful, but it requires extreme amounts of data. You can, for instance, train a deep-learning algorithm to recognize a cat with a cat-fancier’s level of...
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