Category Archives: autonomous vehicle technology

A challenge, eh?

November 1, 2007 – 8:23 am

The Economist
The competition to make a working robot vehicle has moved from the desert to the mean city streets
ONLY three years ago the world’s most advanced robotic cars struggled to make their way around even basic obstacles such as large rocks and potholes in the road. Despite millions of dollars’ worth of high-tech equipment, the [...]

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Rise of the machines

November 1, 2007 – 5:45 am

The Economist
EVER since Karol Capek, a Czech playwright, used the term in the early 1920s to describe artificial people, robots have usually appeared in popular culture with human characteristics and made by big companies. There was the Model B-9 Environmental Control Robot in “Lost in Space”; Rosie, the robot maid in “The Jetsons”; C-3PO in [...]

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