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California's DMV today issued a permit to Nuro authorizing the company to test two driverless vehicles on surface streets. 
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Automation is expected to make many jobs disappear in the future. And according to a recent study, women are more vulnerable to job loss than men.
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The human response to possible takeover by robot overlords is off to a troubling start.
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Electronics miniaturization coupled with propulsion and airframe upgrades are making smaller unmanned aircraft increasing capable in a widening range of roles.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
A very much so aviation/military oriented approach that is very heavy on military/aviation worldview, but still a useful exploration.
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Goodbye, sweet Firefly. Waymo, the Alphabet company that began as Google's self-driving car research program, said in a blog post today that it's retiring its prototype autonomous vehicle, nicknamed Firefly. It will now use cars built exclusively by automakers, including the Chrysler Pacifica minivans that it's been co-designing with Fiat Chrysler for over
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The lights dimmed inside the Shenzhen Bay Sports Stadium as the countdown to the match began. "Wu, si, san, er, yi!" A chime sounded and two teams of robots sprang into action across a
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Airbus just announced a new conceptual car-and-drone project called Pop.Up. And I know. I know! This feels like the 100th car-drone concept we’ve shown you in the last few years. (Hell, it’
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PIRatE Lab's insight:
Indeed; the more automation, the more traditional jobs are put at risk. We are too slow in prepping for the needs motivated by the new world robotics and AI is inevitably crafting
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Simulated enemies got uncomfortably close to the Littoral Combat Ship in a live fire exercise.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Again, we see the power is smaller, miniature versions of larger units. The swarm-style approach to achieving a goal can often best more stagnant, solitary approaches.
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Federal regulators opened a preliminary probe into the autopilot feature on a Tesla Model S electric car after a fatal crash involving the technology, Tesla said Thursday. The fatality – thought to be the first in the auto industry related to an autopilot feature – sparked questions about th
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The first test of autopilot robots (aka cars).
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Sweden and truck manufacturer Scania have teamed up to create the world's first "electric road," which utilizes technology from the early 20th century.
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Robotic arms like Flippy from Miso Robotics are getting cheap enough to make financial sense for low-wage work. But there's an argument in the industry.
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The California company can provide self-driving firms with crucial up-to-date map data thanks to its in-house-built equipment.
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A Tesla sedan in "autopilot" mode struck a parked Laguna Beach Police Department vehicle on Tuesday morning, authorities said.
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The maritime industry's exhaustive push toward autonomy just received a boost in the form of a deal signed between Rolls…
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An MIT study predicts when artificial intelligence will take over for humans in different occupations.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
An interesting piece to provoke discussion. But almost all of these predictions to date (and those preceding this group) have been wrong. In particular we underestimate how fast automation and AI replaces "high end" activities such as management and skilled labor.
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A contentious legal battle between Waymo and Uber shows the brutal competition between companies racing to get autonomous vehicles on the road.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We have been running down our own LIDAR road (for drones) and it really is the wild west of technology these days.
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On Nov. 8, four autonomous vehicles collaborated for a joint firefighting and lifesaving demonstration: the K-MAX helicopter, the Sikorsky Autonomy Researc
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Today is a milestone moment in Ford’s history
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Immmmm....five years, huh? This seems at best "optimistic" shall we say.
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New guidance provides the route to classification with six levels for autonomous ships
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This may become a new standard akin to the standards set out for self-driving cars (with 6 levels) and UAVs (which I think most folks would classify as 3 to 4 levels).
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Google won't release a self-driving car until it can do away with human drivers entirely. Tesla, on the other hand, has turned customers into test drivers. Which strategy is smarter -- and safer?
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Different pathways to apparently different end points in autonomous navigation and the degree of algorithmic control of movement.
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When a a driverless car crashes, should it be programmed to save the greatest number of people, even if that means passengers don’t make it?
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The logic of the programmer vs. the logic of human-control. This is an interesting thought puzzle. It is not that we are making a decision, it is that this decision will eventually be hardwired and be "set in stone."
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