In a new series, Ground Truth explores iconic technology throughout pop culture history that left an indelible impression about the future of automation and what self-driving could become. Not necessarily the most capable robots or flashiest driverless cars, but the ones that connected most deeply with us and remain parked in our brains forever. Flashback…
Throughout its history, the nearly 142-year-old nonprofit organization League of American Bicyclists has advocated for the safety of the nation’s cyclists. “There’s so much conflict on our roadways,” says Ken McLeod, policy director at the League of American Bicyclists, “A lot of that is because of the way our roadways are designed, but also because of how…
On the surface, you might not expect to find much in common between the five-time Stanley Cup-winning Pittsburgh Penguins professional hockey team and Argo AI, a leading self-driving technology company — other than the fact that they both call Pittsburgh home. But look closer and you’ll find that both organizations rely heavily on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and…
They lurch and waddle. They fall, a lot. They cluster around the ball like a herd of mechanical toddlers at a Saturday morning scrimmage. Soccer may be the beautiful game, but there is nothing elegant about watching robots play it, even as we come up on the 25th anniversary of the Robot World Cup, or “RoboCup.”…
The 2022 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022) is nearly here. Thousands of computer scientists, software engineers, and researchers from around the globe will gather in New Orleans to review and discuss their latest work in artificial intelligence and developing other computer programs to advance the way we work, live, play, create, and move…
ASIMO, the world’s first bi-pedal humanoid robot, “lived” just 22 years. But that brief time ushered in an era of robotic acceptance and innovation that has fueled progress in robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and automation of all kinds. When Honda began researching humanoid robots in 1986, its engineers were interested in creating a walking…
