robotics
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Mercedes-Benz Says It’s Doing Autonomous Driving Better Than Tesla
The luxury car manufacturer’s new self-driving system has edged out Tesla’s efforts per the SAE Levels of Driving Automation.
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How Would a Self-Driving Car Handle the Trolley Problem?
Examining how self-driving cars would decide which humans to save.
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Don’t Worry, Human Drummers, Your Jobs Are Safe… For Now
Just a few months after its debut in August, Xiaomi is looking for ways to show off the unique capabilities of its humanoid robot, CyberOne. Instead of putting it to work on an assembly line, Xiaomi propped it up behind a digital drum kit and let it bang out a rhythm, but Ringo Starr, Dave…
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From Semis to Surveillance: Kodiak Robotics Awarded $AU75 Million Pentagon Contract for Autonomous Vehicles
The U.S. military’s long, often winding road to rolling out autonomous vehicles has, to this point, mostly disappointed energetic technologists eager to see human drivers eliminated from combat scenarios. Though the Pentagon’s largest research agency has spent the better part of two decades fiddling with autonomous tech, now the Department of Defence is turning to…