What the Watchbot Sees: How Knightscope security robots use AI for surveillance
Autonomous Vehicles

What the Watchbot Sees: How Knightscope security robots use AI for surveillance

Knightscope’s security robots look cute. But these cone-headed automatons, which serve U.S. police departments and businesses, are serious surveillance machines.

November 20, 20192 min read
Blind Spot
Autonomous Vehicles

Blind Spot

In March 2018, one of Uber’s self-driving cars became the first autonomous vehicle reported to have killed a pedestrian. A new report by U.S. authorities suggests that the accident occurred because the car’s software was programmed to ignore jaywalkers.

November 13, 20192 min read
Blind Spot
Autonomous Vehicles

Blind Spot

In March 2018, one of Uber’s self-driving cars became the first autonomous vehicle reported to have killed a pedestrian. A new report by U.S. authorities suggests that the accident occurred because the car’s software was programmed to ignore jaywalkers.

November 13, 20192 min read
Robot Tanks on the March
Autonomous Vehicles

Robot Tanks on the March

A new generation of battlebots is gaining momentum.What’s new: The Army is at least two years ahead of schedule in its plan to deploy self-driving (and self-aiming) transports, jeeps, and tanks.

October 23, 20192 min read
Robot Tanks on the March
Autonomous Vehicles

Robot Tanks on the March

A new generation of battlebots is gaining momentum.What’s new: The Army is at least two years ahead of schedule in its plan to deploy self-driving (and self-aiming) transports, jeeps, and tanks.

October 23, 20192 min read
Autonomous Drones Ready to Race
Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous Drones Ready to Race

Pilots in drone races fly souped-up quadcopters around an obstacle course at 120 miles per hour. But soon they may be out of a job, as race organizers try to spice things up with drones controlled by AI.

October 16, 20191 min read
Autonomous Drones Ready to Race
Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous Drones Ready to Race

Pilots in drone races fly souped-up quadcopters around an obstacle course at 120 miles per hour. But soon they may be out of a job, as race organizers try to spice things up with drones controlled by AI.

October 16, 20191 min read
High Accuracy, Low Compute
Autonomous Vehicles

High Accuracy, Low Compute

As neural networks have become more accurate, they’ve also ballooned in size and computational cost. That makes many state-of-the-art models impractical to run on phones and potentially smaller, less powerful devices.

October 16, 20192 min read
High Accuracy, Low Compute
Autonomous Vehicles

High Accuracy, Low Compute

As neural networks have become more accurate, they’ve also ballooned in size and computational cost. That makes many state-of-the-art models impractical to run on phones and potentially smaller, less powerful devices.

October 16, 20192 min read
Tesla Bets on Slim Neural Nets
Autonomous Vehicles

Tesla Bets on Slim Neural Nets

Elon Musk has promised a fleet of autonomous Tesla taxis by 2020. The company reportedly purchased a computer vision startup to help meet that goal. Tesla acquired DeepScale, a Silicon Valley startup that rocesses computer vision on low-power electronics.

October 9, 20191 min read
Tesla Bets on Slim Neural Nets
Autonomous Vehicles

Tesla Bets on Slim Neural Nets

Elon Musk has promised a fleet of autonomous Tesla taxis by 2020. The company reportedly purchased a computer vision startup to help meet that goal. Tesla acquired DeepScale, a Silicon Valley startup that rocesses computer vision on low-power electronics.

October 9, 20191 min read

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