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AIDA is a project created by MIT’s Personal Robots Group, the SENSEable city lab and Volkswagen Group of America’s Electronics Research Lab. The cute robot is lovingly called AIDA, but its real name is a long Affective Intelligent Driving Agent...

Stanford’s latest robotic car is an Audi TTS, and the robotic DNA in there comes with sensors, GPS guidance, and literally a car load of computers. The autonomous car can top at an impressive 130mph, and Stanford has enough trust in the car to send.

We’re sold at the idea of having giant robots function as bridges, and get into some robo-action when their city needs them. Sure the idea isn’t very comfortable, especially for those crossing the bridge, but sci-fi rocks. This giant robot...

Nissan has a thing for putting robots in cars, and they have just unveiled the updated EPORO robot car concept, which will make an official debut at CEATEC. The robot car uses fish-inspired technology, and likes to travel in groups, like a school of..

There’s more than just pretty looking and clean ships for the Office of Naval Research’s plan to have autonomous robots scrub the hulls of its vessels. The clean vessels will be able to move faster and have a greater fuel efficiency, this...

There are a lot of motor based pedal assist systems in the world, but this one is probably the coolest, and as our unreliable shady sources tell us, this is the way God intended pedal assist systems to be. Modder Carl’s “Joules” robot rides...

The Honda rickshaw concept from designer Enoch Morishima is a Honda sponsored design study that gives a high-tech and robotic twist to the old Asian rickshaw concept. The designer sees it as a transport medium that would “rule” city centers,...

The Beast: Nissan Robot Car crash avoidance vehicle was launched recently and looks like it is going to be one hell of a vehicle. The car is equipped with a Laser Range Finder, which detects obstacles two meters away and avoids collisions. The...