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Shut the gate! It’s the self-driving Google car
This is a close-up of the kind of robot car that Google first talked about last year, and was reported in the New York Times among other outlets. This demo is appropriately connected with a TED event. This is not only a demonstration that the car works. It’s a geeky expression of robot car machismo.
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Self-designing resilient robot gaits
The robot from Cornell University in this video ‘generates a conception of itself’ and improvises ways of moving around. At startup, the design has been left incomplete, and the robot itself finishes the design.
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Auto-paternalism
The mobile sensing system Mobileye uses a single camera, mounted on the windscreen, to judge whether the car is drifting out of the lane, or about to hit a vehicle, pedestrian, or kangaroo. It can give up to 2.7 seconds warning if it calculates there is a potential collision.
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Speeding beyond the human
Most robots I’ve seen move at a very deliberate pace. The computational challenge of processing multiple signals, and deciding what to do next (while not draining the battery too much) mean that most research robots take a long time to do pretty much anything.
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Economist articles on robotics
The Economist has published some articles on robotics recently: eye robots and artificial intelligence.
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Departing Durrant-Whyte tells the Australian Centre for Field Robotics story
In his final public spiel as Director of the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Hugh Durrant-Whyte connected his personal motivations and values with his ambitious goals to create a successful research centre.
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Following Robot
This clip shows a prototype robot from an early stage of the collaboration between Paul Gazzola and Paul Granjon at the Campbelltown Arts Centre. This simple robot could follow a line formed by a line of plastic tape stuck to the ground.