Self-Driving Cars

Self-driving vehicles will begin to be commercially available around 2020 as near-term costs as well as social and legal concerns are addressed.

Autonomous vehicles: 75% of all light-duty vehicle sales by 2035

For robots to be useful service in everyday environments, they need to handle unpredictable and changing social spaces.

Will interoperability issues affect the thousands of medical robots enteingr the health care delivery system?

Increasing vehicle autonomy finally has insurers contemplating complex liability issues.

Google dropped an interesting snippet of information. In order to intelligently make decisions, its self-driving cars gather some 750MB of sensor data every second.

The robotic farming projects are looking at a number of areas, including autonomous vehicles and platforms. The emphasis is on aiding farm workers rather than replacing them.

Regulatory, legal and technological hurdles might mean self-driving cars won?t be feasible until about 2020.

With the advent of self-driving cars and surgical robots, the answer to the question of who, exactly, would be responsible (in an ethical sense) and liable (in a legal sense) in the event of an error or accident becomes murky.

It?s hoped that a little attention from DARPA will do for humanoid robotics what it did for robot vehicles.