Cars That Think
DECEMBER 12, 2022
In the late 1980s, Rod Brooks and Anita Flynn published a paper in The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society with the amazing title of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: A Robotic Invasion of the Solar System.
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2016
Assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed, according to a new article from an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Instead of oil buttressing autocracy, the article argues that autocracy among oil exporters buttresses oil by encouraging consumption. —Jim Krane.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
It is now used on construction sites to reconstruct a full three-dimensional model of an environment, just by walking around with one of the latest smartphones, which incorporate depth sensors. This article appears in the March 2022 print issue as “Building Boom.”. Combine all these factors and a dazzling possibility emerges.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The biggest leap forward happened in 2012 when it was discovered that USB stick TV tuners using the RTL2832U demodulator chip could be tapped to make very cheap but effective SDR receivers. Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs.
Cars That Think
JULY 21, 2021
Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color. This article appears in the August 2021 print issue as “Cozy Futurism.". What about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities?
Cars That Think
APRIL 14, 2022
For a good review of 5G bio-effects studies, see [Ken] Karipidis’s article that found ‘no confirmed evidence that low-level RF fields above 6 GHz such as those used by the 5G network are hazardous to human health.’” —Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania In your opinion, is exposure assessment a solved problem? The list goes on.
Cars That Think
JULY 31, 2023
Raibert showed concept art at ICRA that included robots working in domestic environments such as kitchens, living rooms, and laundry rooms as well as industrial settings. “I You could talk about what you want to do, but people talk about all kinds of things that way—the future is so cheap, and so variable.
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