Nissan Motor Co. opened a research center in California’s Silicon Valley that the Japanese carmaker plans to make its hub for research on self-driving vehicles and Internet-connected auto technology.
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Silicon Valley is the place to be for autonomous vehicle research. Although Germany and France do interesting applied research, and Michigan's large connected car trial is very relevant too.
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Moscow-based Neurobotics has revealed Russia's first female android. Delete the scoop?
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This giant bobblehead robot asks people for directions to get where it needs to go... Delete the scoop?
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Freescale Semiconductors introduces a modular robotics development system, and an entry-level robot for US$200. Delete the scoop?
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A small, child-like robot dubbed DeeChee, which is similar to a child between 6 and 14 months old, can learn rudimentary language skills that are not pre-programmed into the robot. Delete the scoop?
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Two researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have created a 3D-printed humanoid robot that can swim -- and may well make your skin, um, crawl. Read this blog post by Edward Moyer on Crave. Delete the scoop?
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There many different types of humanoid robots out there but this is the first one created solely for swimming. SWUMANIOD (SWimming + hUMANOID) was created by researchers Motomu Nakashima and Chung Changhyun of ... Delete the scoop?
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James DeChant's humanoid construction robot project - finalist in suckerPunch. Delete the scoop?
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A couple of researchers over at the University of Wisconsin-Madison called Bilge Mutlu and Dan Szafir have been messing about with a Wakamaru humanoid robot to work in such a way that it can deliver information and at ... Delete the scoop?
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We've written before about the U.S. military's use of robots in combat, and the occasionally freaky robots under development for the Defense Department. Delete the scoop?
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The DARPA Robotics Challenge is decidedly not exclusive to humanoid systems. The three big ideas here are, first, we need robots that are compatible with shared environments, even though the environments are degraded, ... Delete the scoop?
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Join an audience at swissnex San Francisco as scientists from Switzerland and the US discuss their research on humanoid robots, cognitive robotics, and artifici (Recommended: Cognitive Robotics and Artificial Intelligence http://t.co/Rsa9jmv3... Delete the scoop?
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Robot enthusiasts, the time has come. The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) begins today. Will you be part of it?
Registration is Track C is open for individuals and small teams without hardware using the open-source DRC simulator. Delete the scoop?
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Along West Hill Road, just west of the Lincoln Gap in Bristol, Vt., sit two big yellow houses on a sprawling property featuring ten solar panels, a dock overlooking a sunlit, trout-filled pond, and porches adorned with rocking chairs. Delete the scoop?
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Denmark quietly pushing ahead in the field of ‘welfare technology’... Delete the scoop?
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HUBO has come so far from mastering the basics of mobility. Delete the scoop?
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Robots are hard to communicate with, but Toshiba wants to remedy that. Which is why their R&D department built ApriPetit, a successor to their larger ApriPoco. This little robot is cute and stands about six inches tall.
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For many years, robotic technology has been an integral part of the industries of manufacturing, the military and space exploration to perform tasks that are laborious, dangerous, or even impossible for humans. Delete the scoop?
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An electron microscope photograph shows a human figure created by a newly developed 3D printing technique for nano structures Researchers from the… (An electron microscope photograph shows a human figure created by a newly developed 3D printing technique... Delete the scoop?
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You may not have realized how far the ASIMO robot has come. Delete the scoop?
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New DARPA Grand Challange For More “Human Like” RobotsWebProNewsThis time we have DARPA coming out with a new Grand Challenge for robots. Delete the scoop?
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"self driven cars won't be feasible until 2020"
great information on self driving cars
interesting topic, slightly boring article but contents are inspiring