This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A way to let robots learn by listening will make them more useful Most AI-powered robots today use cameras to understand their surroundings and le...
How Uber, Lyft, Electrify America, EVgo, Tesla And Lack Of Knowledge Led To Chicago's EV Disaster Interesting read/watch. That last part though... "He did attempt to get it towed to the rental agency, but the two truck companies in the area were overwhelmed at the time, so it...
She's emblematic of a new generation of robotic technology that's being developed to supplement, or in some cases replace, the work of humans. Unlike the industrial robots that took over factory jobs in decades past, these robots have a more human touch and can interact with people in ways...
of this problem is to approximate the robot's footprint to its enclosing circle, precomputing a cost map in which obstacles are inflated by the radius of this circle, effectively reducing the robot to a single point and avoiding the need to perform convolutions when searching for the path. ...