Volvo has just announced a new electric vehicle concept built to tow loads around ports and factories all on its lonesome, so much so they it hasn't even bothered with a cabin.
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Vincenzo Navanteri has been awarded the US$20,000 Prince Alvaro de Orleans-Borbon Grant at the 2nd annual FAI International Drone Conference and Expo in Lausanne, Switzerland over the weekend for his idea of a self-piloting drone ambulance.
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It's no secret that the world's coral reefs are in trouble, and unfortunately scuba divers can only do so much in the way of monitoring or protecting them. Scientists in Australia, however, have developed an autonomous underwater drone that could be of great help.
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As Waymo’s self-driving vehicles continue to clock up the miles, the company is focusing its trips based on feedback from the first year of its early riders program in Phoenix, Arizona. As well as expanding existing partnerships, Waymo has now teamed up with Walmart and DDR to streamline shopping.
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After years of petitioning the UN to take action against weaponized AI, the Future of Life Institute has now taken matters into its own hands, with thousands of AI researchers, engineers and companies pledging not to develop or support the development of autonomous killing machines in any way.
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DARPA’s Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program has successfully wound up its Phase 2 flight tests, putting its drones and algorithms to the test in three primary scenarios – all without human assistance or control.
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Aergility has spent the last few years developing and testing a new kind of VTOL called ATLIS. The wingless autonomous delivery drone is being designed to fly at 100 mph for hundreds of miles on a single tank of gas, making use of a proprietary lift and control system called managed autorotation.
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Disney’s animatronics are coming a long way from hippos that wiggle their ears. In the (relatively) near future, robotic versions of Iron Man or Buzz Lightyear could be performing autonomous acrobatics overhead in Disney theme parks, thanks to the newly-unveiled Stuntronics robot.
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Autonomous robots have made their way to the factory floor and busy warehouse, and are even greeting customers at some hotels. But few are out in the wild. And it's the wild that's the source of inspiration for a new breed of bots that can build structures to overcome obstacles.
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It was just back in March that German electrical automation company Festo unveiled two of its latest robots inspired by animals – a crawling/rolling spider and a flying fox bat. Now, it's taken the wraps off BionicFinWave, which moves like a cuttlefish.
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