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This Autonomous Robot Might Soon Make Food Deliveries in Airports

Cars That Think

Today Ottobot is being piloted not only by restaurants but also grocery stores, postal services, and airports. The lidars provide geometric information about the environment. A store or restaurant employee loads the ordered items into Ottobot. He attends conferences frequently and participates in online events.

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SwRI to showcase Ranger precision localization technology for automated driving; non-GPS system with 2cm precision

Green Car Congress

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will showcase its award-winning Ranger precision localization solution at the AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2016 conference and trade show in New Orleans 2-5 May. Once a map is built, localization is performed by matching a live image frame to an image frame stored in the map. based on image matches.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

If you let people just dive in and try anything they want, any trick they’ve read about in some magazine, you end up with a lot of circuits that are marginal and flaky” —Roland Albers Path timings were documented in initial project specifications and updated at the weekly meetings Albers called once the actual designing of circuits was under way.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By BYD also developed the motors and software for the system.

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