robotics
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GM’s Cruise Investigated Over Reported Pedestrian Injuries
General Motors’ autonomous vehicle company Cruise can’t shake the safety scrutiny over its driverless robotaxis. Now the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is digging into whether or not these AVs are safe for the pedestrians being forced to live with them. The NHTSA’s Office of Defects opened an investigation into Cruise on Monday. A…
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‘Go Catch That Squirrel:’ Google AI Teaches a Robo-Dog Conversational Commands
Google researchers may have finally found a tech solution for the laborious task of training stubborn dogs to listen to commands. That is, of course, if you’re willing to opt for a robot dog. A group of research scientists at Google DeepMind designed a large language model called SayTap’s capable of translating a variety of…
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San Francisco Begs California to Pause Waymo & Cruise Robotaxi Infestation
The future is nigh, but San Francisco wants to push it off just a little farther. The Bay Area city is asking California regulators to push pause on the expansion of robotaxi services from Waymo and Cruise. TechCrunch reports that San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed a motion with the California Public Utilities Commission…
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Human Pleads Guilty in First Ever Self-Driving Pedestrian Death
Rafaela Vasquez, the operator of a self-driving Uber vehicle that was the first-ever involved in a pedestrian fatality, has pleaded guilty to endangerment in the criminal case that followed the crash. The guilty plea, filed nearly five years after Vasquez’s fatal collision with a woman crossing a street with her bike, provides an answer in…