self-driving cars

A driverless car that went rogue could be a taste of the robo uprising

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The recent case of a driverless car that tried to escape its handlers might make us laugh, but it also warns us about what could happen when AI is given a “body”, writes Annalee Newitz Technology | Columnist 2 February 2022 By Annalee Newitz MicroOne/Shutterstock DRIVING in San Francisco is like watching a robot uprising … Read more

Laser scanner creates 3D colour images of surfaces or objects

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Lidar uses lasers to create 3D images, but these can be hard to interpret because they are black and white. A new scanner adds cameras to make colour images that could be useful for infrastructure inspection or robot vision Technology 14 January 2022 By David Hambling A new portable scanner combines laser scanning technology with … Read more