Thursday, October 01, 2015

Robopocalypse #25: Self Driving Chinese Buses Take Over the World!

Drones:



India's Home Ministry has restricted the use of drones for commercial activities.

Drones could reduce the cost of forest conservation.

This science fiction series is being shot entirely with drones.

The FAA is concerned 1 million drones could be sold this Christmas.

Rwanda has approved medical supply deliveries by drone.

Paparazzi are starting to crash events with...drones.

The FAA has missed an important deadline to regulate drones.

Minnesota has started inspecting bridges with drones.

Self Driving Cars:


While everyone is looking at the US for self driving cars, here's China's self driving bus (see video above too).

Tesla will introduce a 1,000 mil range electric vehicle within a year or two and self driving car within 3 years.

Self driving cars could reduce accidents by 90%.

What is it like to ride in Google's self driving car?

How Google plans to roll out its self driving cars.

Who is liable if self driving cars get into an accident?

Volvo as teamed up with Autoliv for developing and testing a self driving car.

Here's a nay-sayer for self driving cars.

Mercedes has announced a plan for self driving limos that could be ordered via a smart phone app.

General Motors is claiming to be taking on Google and Apple for self driving cars now.

Freightliner's self driving truck is garnishing praise.

The Economist takes a gander at how left wing European politicians are reacting to self driving cars.

3d Printing:

The Robopocalypse must be doing something right: Kanye West is terrified of 3d printing. Especially of textiles! Woo!

MDA has begun development of 3d printed satellite antenna's.

Z3DLab has introduced a new 3d printable titanium-ceramic composite.

Two companies have teamed up to 3d print parts that are no longer available for older machinery.

You can now 3d print a functional ion drive.  

Robotics:



Disney has developed inflatable grippers for robots (see above).

The Robogami makes its appearance from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

Researchers in Singapore are making progress is getting robots to be able to assemble an Ikea chair.

Some insight on how Amazon's robopocalyptic warehouses work. In the future, all warehouses will have embraced the robopocalypse even more than Amazon has!

An unmanned surface vehicle and unmanned sub are working together to monitor ocean wildlife.

This bot paints based on where the human eyes look.

Nature talks about squishy bots.

Boston Dynamics' Spot does some "dancing."

A new robotic hand can identify objects through touch.

Here's another look at bots down on the farm.

Dom Indoors wants to completely reconfigure your home in minutes using mini robots.

Computing Advancement & Artificial Intelligence:

A new 'natural computing chip architecture' allows for chips to be trained into functions without explicitly designing them.

 A new AI can pass an IQ test on the level of a 4 year old.

Human Machine Interface:

The question is can we complete a map of the human brain.  Or not.

A student has developed a new glove that translates sign language into speech.

Kurzweil does his thing.

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