What links winter sports athletes in China, pizza fans in France, burger lovers in California, and coffee drinkers in Singapore? Answer: They’ve all enjoyed food that has been prepared by and maybe even served by kitchen robots. It sounds fun, but restaurant automation is no gimmick. Restaurants offer not just convenience, but also a highly…
Today, Argo AI announced a new partnership with Lyft that will accelerate our deployment of Ford driverless vehicles for ride-hailing. Through this industry-first collaboration, companies with the three key aspects required to launch, validate and scale an autonomous ride-hailing service in cities are directly working together: the self-driving system developed by the Argo AI team;…
Ariel Wolf is the general counsel for the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association (AVIA), an organization established to educate the public, lawmakers, and regulators on the safety and societal benefits of autonomous vehicle technology. Self-driving. Fully driverless. Semi-autonomous. ADS. ADAS. Automated. Fully automated self-driving. A lot of terminology is tossed around by journalists, policymakers, analysts and…
“One of the things that I loved about being a student was there were just all of these different ideas,” says Yisong Yue, a professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech. “I loved hearing everyone’s viewpoints, and I continue to value that as a professor.” In addition to having the unique ability to both give…
Consider the hours of labor required to map an as-yet uncharted area of the ocean floor. You’d have to sail for weeks just to reach some of the waters to be mapped, and a crewed vessel heading out into the big wide open needs to carry enough fuel for the boat and supplies for the…
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.”…