Robotic pods take on car design
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A new breed of wearable robotic vehicles that envelop drivers are being developed by Toyota.
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You won't find these mechanical mixologists working the rail at your neighborhood gin joint. But these sometimes-sassy robotic bartenders aren't shy about strutting their stuff at Austria's Roboexotica Festival. Photos by John Borland.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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Cars that drive themselves, park themselves and run on hydrogen. What a great year for car technology.
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The new Japanese robot Miuro turns an iPod music player into a dancing boombox-on-wheels. The 14-inch-long machine from ZMP Inc. blares music as it rolls and twists from room to room. The robot, which looks like a ball popping out of an egg, has a speaker system from Kenwood Corp.
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Using cameras in its eyes, the robot can determine if the driver is under stress or tired and suggest a rest.
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Computer simulations have become a powerful predictive tool for auto engineers to push safety forward.
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Science & environment: The robot devised by Ivan Bowman makes remote working and interacting with his colleagues much easier, says Matt Walcoff.
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Next week, three dozen robot cars bristling with lasers, radars, and antennas compete in Darpa's Urban Challenge race. If all goes as planned, it'll be as orderly as a procession of golf carts in downtown Sun City. But it could just as easily turn into a robot smash-up derby.
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The car of the future could be in your driveway in 2005. At least one company promises it will deliver, and advances in materials technology could contribute. By John Gartner.
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TOKYO -- The new Japanese robot Miuro turns an iPod music player into a dancing boombox-on-wheels.
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Junior the autonomous car makes its way cautiously through a street-inspired obstacle course. Here's a look at the tech under the hood (and inside the trunk, and on the roof).
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Motorists nostalgic for the time they could sit tight while attendants braved windswept garage forecourts to fill their tanks may yet see those heady days return -- compliments of a Dutch robot.
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Driving a race car takes more than good hand-eye coordination and the stomach for G-forces. It also takes a truckload of high-tech gear.
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From the sleek Tesla Roadster to the stackable CityCar, the automobile of the future comes in a wide variety of styles and incorporates an array of forward-thinking technological advances.
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Blog: A new device in the works could debut with Mercedes, according to one report
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Extraordinary advances in unmanned aerial vehicles signify progress in the field of robotics.