Autonomous robot

The unmanned Small Multi-purpose Equipment Transport being demonstrated by the U.S. Army at Fort Irwin, California.Gif: U.S. Army video by Spc. Samarion HicksThe U.S. military has spent the past month running exercises at various locations in California to prepare for “future war-winning readiness.” And the photos being officially released include plenty of robot dogs, augmented reality headsets, resupply drones, and at least one mysterious AI-driven vehicle. There’s also an eight-wheeled, all-electric robot vehicle that…

Image: Serve RoboticsYour next food delivery could make its way to you via a robot.Uber Eats is set to release 2,000 delivery robots into the wild through an expansion of the company’s deal with Serve Robotics.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving CarServe Robotics is an independent company which spun out from Uber in 2021 following the company’s acquisition of Postmates the year prior. Uber Eats announced that it would begin testing autonomous delivery using Serve Robotics models in West Hollywood last May, and this new update…

It’s scientifically impossible to use a tape measure to just measure something. It’s the workshop tool of 1,000 other useless uses, including lightsabers, or seeing how far it can extend before the tape collapses. Researchers at Stanford University have found yet another use for the tape measure: as a way for robots to navigate rough terrain by taking advantage of the terrain itself.ReachBot is actually an ongoing research project between Stanford’s Biomimetics & Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory, Stanford’s…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)What would you do if you saw a self-driving car hit a person?In Robot Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, posits a trolley problem for 2022: Should the car continue its course and kill five pedestrians, or divert its course and kill one?In the chapter presented here, Coeckelbergh examines how humans have conceptualized of robots as a larger framework and plumbs how self-driving cars would handle lethal traffic…

Uber’s Serve Robotics began piloting an autonomous delivery system in Los Angeles in May 2022.Image: Serve RoboticsOne of Uber’s self-driving food delivery robots did not take kindly to the yellow caution tape surrounding a crime scene in Los Angeles as it plowed through the area, according to a video shared on Twitter Tuesday. 02:49Guess How Much Crypto's Been Stolen Lately? Part 2Today 10:45AMWilliam Gude is the owner of Film the Police LA, a watchdog Twitter account documenting police activity in the Los Angeles area.…