Automotive
The town of Linköping, Sweden, has a small fleet of autonomous electric buses that carry riders along a predetermined route. The bright vehicles, emblazoned with the tagline, "Ride the Future," have one main problem: Pedestrians ...
Apr 17, 2023
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Business
The notion of self-driving vehicles is currently met with equal parts wonder and alarm. But a new study reveals how the pros may outweigh the cons as a business strategy.
Apr 14, 2022
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Security
Emerging self-driving vehicle networks that collaborate and communicate with each other or infrastructure to make decisions are vulnerable to data fabrication attacks, according to a University of Michigan-led study that ...
Aug 21, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
While not yet on the market, fully autonomous vehicles are promoted as a way to make road travel dramatically safer, but a recent study found that knowing more about them did not improve people's perception of their risk. ...
Jul 9, 2024
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Robotics
In the future, a soldier and a game controller may be all that's needed to teach robots how to outdrive humans.
Aug 12, 2020
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Robotics
For the first time, MIT researchers have enabled a soft robotic arm to understand its configuration in 3-D space, by leveraging only motion and position data from its own "sensorized" skin.
Feb 13, 2020
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Automotive
Waymo, the autonomous driving unit of Google's parent company Alphabet, said Wednesday it would begin testing its driverless ride-hailing service on the streets of San Francisco with employees as riders.
Feb 18, 2021
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Automotive
Ph.D. student Robbin van Hoek has designed a new platform for automated vehicles that integrates the benefits of cooperative and autonomous vehicles. The framework is an important step toward autonomous vehicles that are ...
Jul 13, 2021
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Robotics
An autonomous spacecraft exploring the far-flung regions of the universe descends through the atmosphere of a remote exoplanet. The vehicle, and the researchers who programmed it, don't know much about this environment.
May 19, 2022
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Hi Tech & Innovation
In the not-so-distant future, city streets could be flooded with autonomous vehicles. Self-driving cars can move faster and travel closer together, allowing more of them to fit on the road—potentially leading to congestion ...
Dec 16, 2019
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