Further discussion of killer robots at the UN on Monday
The kind of artificially intelligent soldier-robot from the futuristic movie The Terminator may be a long way off, but policy analysts are grappling now with limits on the military use of robots....
View ArticleU.S. Navy will launch up to 30 synchronized drones within one minute from a...
Well.. “possibly from a canon-like device.” The video shows testing of the LOCUST system. LOCUST – LOw Cost Uav Swarm Technology From DailyMail
View ArticleThis squad of flat robots can autonomously steal or park your car
Robots may soon change nearly every aspect of our day-to-day lives, in ways we have not even begun to conceive. They are getting smarter, smaller, lighter, stronger, more efficient, and there is...
View ArticleFirst Autonomous Semi Licensed to Drive Itself on Highways
The self-driving vehicles are coming. And Freightliner’s SuperTruck is more than twice as efficient as a typical semi truck, potentially saving nearly 38,000 liters of diesel a year. “They gave the...
View ArticleDrones can refuel without landing
Milestone: The Northrop Grumman X-47B is a demonstration unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) designed for carrier-based operations. On April 22, the X-47B successfully conducted the first ever...
View ArticleCHIMP, a rugged and sturdy disaster response robot competing in DARPA’s...
Meet CHIMP, one of 25 robotic soldier prototypes… er, I mean “disaster response robots,” competing in DARPA’s Robotic Challenge this month for the $2 million prize. C – CMU – (Carnegie Melon...
View ArticleCheetah can now jump over obstacles autonomously
Boston Dynamics’ speed-record-setting Cheetah robot: …is no longer tethered with power and data cables. As discussed in 2013, it now supplies its own power and has its own onboard computer. And now,...
View ArticleDARPA Robotics Challenge 2015 – This weekend in Pomona, California
IEEE Spectrum has put together a beautiful chart (suitable for framing ) of all 24 finalists competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge this weekend, in this format: “With 24 teams competing in the...
View ArticleRobots be trippin’
Well falling, anyway. For the team working tirelessly, day after day, trying to equip their robot to win the DARPA Robotics Challenge, it must be painful to watch their work topple over with no safety...
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