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Blind Man Gets a Ride in Google’s Self-Driving Car
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My grandfather was paralyzed from the waist down from an accident before I was born. As he aged, his health deteriorated until he was unable to drive his own car despite it having specially outfitted controls operated by his hands. That left him unable to do anything outside the home… |
March 30th, 2012
Truss Robots Could Be Our Future Construction Workers
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A team from Cornell’s Creative Machine Lab have come up with a new robot which can not only crawl along truss structures, but that can actually manipulate them and move them around.… |
February 20th, 2012
Nevada Approves Regulations for Self-Driving Cars
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One of the common themes in science fiction is cars or other vehicles that can drive and navigate themselves. Google took that science fiction and made reality with its self-driving cars it has been testing and rolling around in some parts of Nevada. The cars are very cool and don’t… |
February 18th, 2012
BMW Highly-Automated Car Barely Needs You
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It never ceases to amaze me when I drive somewhere just how many idiot drivers I see reading, texting, and doing anything other than keeping their eyes on the road. The government is trying to combat distracted drivers but what they really need to be doing is combating idiots. There… |
February 3rd, 2012
Nano-Quadrotor Swarm: Galaxian IRL
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There’s just something inherently cool about flying quadrotors. But I have to say this is the first time I’ve seen this many of the crafts flying in unison. Using a veritable army of flying nano-quadrotors from KMel Robotics, Alex Kushleyev, Daniel Mellinger and Vijay Kumar of the University of Pennsylvania’s… |
January 31st, 2012
Quadrotors Build a Building
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Who’d have thought that flying robots could someday create buildings? But as crazy as it sounds, our quadrotor-loving friends over at the Swiss Federal Institute Institute of Technology already have proven it’s possible.… |
December 4th, 2011
Wave Glider Autonomous Robot Ship Fleet: Ready to Invade Your Shores
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On November 17th, Liquid Robotics launched four of its Wave Gliders from San Francisco. These are autonomous robotic ships that will brave the seas all alone, with no support vessels.… |
December 3rd, 2011
SEED Concept: Your Personal Automonous Floating Camera Drone
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The SEED is an autonomous, mobile camera balloon created to take photos and video of you while you’re on vacation, but I honestly see a lot of Big Brother implications. It also reminds me of the Kinos in Stargate Universe…. This unique spin on the blimp drone was designed |
July 10th, 2011
Nevada Passes Legislation Allowing Google’s Driverless Cars to Cruise State Highways
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I think you can agree with me, people are generally stupid. Put stupid behind the wheel and you get an idiot driver that will text, eat, and read all while doing 80 MPH down the highway in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Google is looking for a way to combat the accidents all… |
June 27th, 2011
Helios IX: Japan’s Radiation-Proof Robots to the Rescue!
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It’s been confirmed that there was a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan. That’s why I think that the Helios IX, which was developed by the Tokyo Institute of Technology, will certainly be able to help out its human friends, since it won’t get sick or die from radiation poisoning.… |
May 16th, 2011
