In a batch of amazing cars to run up the Goodwood hill for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, an autonomous vehicle tackled the hill and climbed it without incident (and without a nanny driver aboard): the Roboracer Robocar. It made it up twice — unlike a certain hapless robo-Mustang.
The futuristic world filled with robots that society has fantasized about for decades started to feel like it had arrived in 2017. While you didn’t see clusters of robots walking down the street yet, we saw robotic innovations break into the mainstream, bridging the gap between science fiction and tangible.
This is the first step on Boeing's future of autonomous flying cargo vehicles. The electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) cargo drone is designed to carry up to 220 kilograms and is said to aid the development of future cargo and logistics operations for Boeing.
Colorado Department of Transportation has said it will deploy a self-driving truck to protect road crews from speeding vehicles by the end of this fall.
The autonomous Global Hawk drone is used to collect data during storms.
QUT's AgBot II prototype is equipped with cameras, sensors and software and is designed to work in autonomous groups to navigate, detect and classify weeds and manage them either chemically or mechanically as well as apply fertilizer for site specific crop management. AgBot II is currently being trialed in the field.
Company website: http://www.autonomoustractor.com The company’s design goal was to build a low-cost, efficient, reliable tractor with a fail-safe no-driver n...
For those doubting that autonomous vehicles are going to be driving alongside humans very soon, consider the first delivery made by Otto while a driver..
University College London’s (UCL) Interactive Architecture Lab designed and built Hortum machina, B, a nomadic, self-driving, and self-cultivating garden.
To the extremely wealthy, the Rolls-Royce Vision Next 100 autonomous concept car takes things to a new level of self-driven luxury.
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