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Google buys Makani Power for X-team eco ambitions

Chris Davies — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:29:29 +0000

… X “moonshot” lab responsible for Glass and Google‘s self-driving cars. Makani Power, which Google had already been partly… has also been tipped to be working on autonomous robotic explorers, which could use self-driving car technology with the same kind of…

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Google Demos Self-Driving Robot Car At TED

Rue Liu — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:55:52 +0000

… after they showed off their self-driving car program at TED (Technology Entertainment … week in Long Beach.

Sebastian Thurn, Google’s head software engineer behind the … I look forward to seeing how Google develops this even further and whether…

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Google's Robot Car Accident Blamed On Human

Rue Liu — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:45:31 +0000

… discounting the advancements in computer capabilities, Google says that the incident was actually… error.

We’ve seen Google‘s self-driving car demoed before at a…originally posted by Jalopnik, but a Google spokesperson sent an official statement …

Google's Robot Car Accident Blamed On Human is written by Rue Liu & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google X labs plan robot researchers to map the future

Chris Davies — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:17:27 +0000

Google could release a fleet of autonomous data collection robots, supplanting its current Google … – which would build on Google‘s self-driving cars - are one of several … underway.

Even if autonomous data-gathering robot cars don’t start handing the …

Google X labs plan robot researchers to map the future is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Back to Basics: How Google's driverless car stays on the road

Michael Crider — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:59:00 +0000

Google‘s self-driving cars are making headlines again, now that they’… by both Google and the best and brightest of DARPA’s robotic race challenges.

The first step in …same information that a human driver uses. Google‘s computers combine data from the…

Back to Basics: How Google's driverless car stays on the road is written by Michael Crider & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google driverless cars still require double drivers

Chris Davies — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:20:42 +0000

…ll be able to summon your robot chauffeur to pick you up …an emergency.

That means that the Google cars not only can’t…’s seat can override the robotic piloting by pressing the brake… test their own versions of self-driving systems among real world…

Google driverless cars prompt robo safety worries

Chris Davies — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:36:59 +0000

… Nevada has re-awakened concerns around robot vehicle security, with experts unconvinced that…the likelihood of commercial implementations of self-driving hardware, with researchers pointing …the road trials of the Google test cars, each must be accompanied …

Volkswagen Temporary Auto Pilot demo gives car intelligence

Chris Davies — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:38:34 +0000

Self-driving cars are still quite a few years off, but Volkswagen hopes that … when workers are in the road.

Altogether, the car is packed with a radar system, … to do so. Meanwhile Google is pushing ahead with its own robotic car systems, in …