No technology is perfect. Even self-driving cars trained to obey traffic laws are bound to run into issues that cause them to commit a citable offense. Such was the case with a Cruise-operated hatchback in San Francisco last weekend, which was pulled over by local law enforcement for failing to switch on its headlights. While the car came to a stop, as video of the incident shows, there’s policy to be established when it comes to interactions between autonomous vehicles and police.
Originally published on Instagram, the video shows the car — one of Cruise’s Chevy Cruises — in the city’s Richmond District pulling over to the side of the road when signaled to do so by an officer, ahead of an intersection. The policeperson walks toward the car and attempts unsuccessfully to open the driver-side door, at which point the Cruise vehicle begins to drive down the road — only to pull over again and activate its hazards. Police approach the car a second time in a presumed effort to figure out how to turn on the headlights. Read More
Tag Archives: Robotics
Tesla is aiming to start production of its Optimus humanoid robot in 2023
Elon Musk gave a timeline to production for the first time for the Tesla Optimus project, a humanoid robot capable of doing general tasks.
The CEO believes the company can bring the ambitious project to production as soon as next year. It’s an ultra-ambitious timeline even for him.
When Tesla announced the “Tesla Bot” project at its A Day last year, Elon Musk presented it as something the company could do by leveraging existing work and parts from the development of self-driving technology, and if they don’t do it, someone else will. Read More
Advanced AIs Exhibiting Depression and Addiction, Scientists Say
It turns out that artificial intelligence chatbots may be more like us than you’d think.
A new preprint study out of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) claims that many big name chatbots, when asked the types of questions generally used as cursory intake queries for depression and alcoholism, appeared to be both “depressed” and “addicted.” Read More
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CES 2022: Deepbrain humanises AI avatars
DeepBrain AI’s industry-first approach to “humanising” AI assistants provides users with an experience that is familiar, enlightening and approachable. Its video synthesis solutions, a CES 2022 Innovation Awards Winner, leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence to quickly create lifelike human-based AI avatars that inform, solve and guide users through thousands of possible scenarios and real-time interactions.
“Our AI avatars are uniquely developed from real people, using their real voices, physical appearances, gestures and regional dialects,” says the company. “We work in a wide range of industries and our AI solution is used by companies like 7-Eleven, KB Bank, LG HV, and Roche.
DeepBrain AI is one of the top three global companies that possess both deep learning-based video synthesis and voice synthesis source technology. Read More
Seoul Robotics Announces LiDAR Enabled Autonomous Logistics Platform
The task of transporting cars from the end of the assembly line to its final destination is currently a manual and expensive logistics problem. It includes loading and unloading of vehicles from the factory floor to trucks, ships and rail, with interim stops at parking lots. Seoul Robotics aims to change this. The company has just launched Level 5 Control Tower (LV5 CTRL TWR) system which BMW is leveraging to automate last-mile fleet logistics at their manufacturing facility in Munich.
The system uses SENSR™, a proprietary perception software powered by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. SENSR™ works in conjunction with a mesh network of computers and LiDAR sensors located on fixed infrastructure (light poles, roof overhangs, etc) that guides vehicles autonomously through a 5G communications network. Read More
DeepRoute.ai Offers a Production-Ready L4 Autonomous Driving System at a Cool $10,000
Autonomous driving is considered to be the holy grail of the automotive industry and has been promised to us for quite a long time already. If I recall the slides from a 2013 Bosch presentation, we should’ve been all passengers in our cars a year ago. Back then, seven years seemed like a reasonable time frame but, health crisis aside, we are nowhere near fully-autonomous driving, or Level 5 (L5) autonomy as the industry calls it.
Sure, Tesla calls its assistance suite “Autopilot” or even “Full Self-Driving,” but it’s just a deceptive trade name for a system that is only capable of L2 autonomy. This means that the car cannot be trusted with your life and Tesla does not assume responsibility for whatever mischiefs the car might be doing. Read More
Unsupervised Learning of Visual 3D Keypoints for Control
Learning sensorimotor control policies from high dimensional images crucially relies on the quality of the underlying visual representations. Prior works show that structured latent space such as visual keypoints often outperforms unstructured representations for robotic control. However, most of these representations, whether structured or unstructured are learned in a 2D space even though the control tasks are usually performed in a 3D environment. In this work, we propose a framework to learn such a 3D geometric structure directly from images in an end-to-end unsupervised manner. The input images are embedded into latent 3D keypoints via a differentiable encoder which is trained to optimize both a multi-view consistency loss and downstream task objective. These discovered D keypoints tend to meaningfully capture robot joints as well as object movements in a consistent manner across both time and 3D space. The proposed approach outperforms prior state-of-art methods across a variety of reinforcement learning benchmarks. Read More
Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business
Walmart said Monday it has started using fully driverless trucking in its online grocery business, aiming to increase capacity and reduce inefficiencies.
Walmart and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik said that, since August, they’ve operated two autonomous box trucks — without a safety driver — on a 7-mile loop daily for 12 hours. The Gatik trucks are loaded with online grocery orders from a Walmart fulfillment center called a “dark store.” The orders are then taken to a nearby Walmart Neighborhood Market grocery store in Bentonville, Arkansas, where Walmart is headquartered. Read More
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