The Google self-driving cars that were outed last year have gone very public during this week’s TED conference in Long Beach, California. Google hasn’t let TED attendees ride in the autonomous Google cars but it’s being doing demos and going quite extreme with tight cornering and burning rubber. You can see the Google self-driving cars in action after the break thanks to Search Engine Land which caught them on camera. You also get a look inside the car as it races around its route…
Students from Manchester University have produced this prototype pair of robots for the Ministry of Defence Grand Challenge, a competition set up by the MoD to uncover new talent across the UK for military hardware use.
Meet Gordon, the worlds first robot controlled entirely with living brain tissue, the primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading just been put through its paces.
We’ve been treated to a glimpse into the future of robotics from AI Professor Noel Sharkey from Sheffield University, after two months of research looking at trends and the evolution of robotics around the world the botboffin offers some bleak reading for criminals.
The latest development of swimming automatons comes in the shape, size and identical features of the humble Bream, has someone in the labs been overdoing it on the Saki.
Since we first clapped eyes on this canine-like robot at CES wayyyyyyy back in January it has been on our shopping list, trouble is it has only been popping up as a pre-order (how we hate this online shopping tease.)
