A study of real Lyft, Waymo, and adaptive cruise control trajectories finds that automated vehicles follow more safely than ...

Newswise — AMES, Iowa — From driving cars to flying drones, as autonomous robots take on more responsibility, they also face more human-like dilemmas — including what to do when rules collide. For a ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Robots are no longer limited to carefully controlled lab settings. They’re sorting packages, navigating warehouses, assisting on factory floors and supporting a growing range of business operations, ...

Ask a robot to put a coffee mug in the cabinet, and you quickly see how complicated an ordinary chore can become. You know where the mug belongs. You can step around a chair, avoid the clutter on the ...

SafeWorld, an AI lab building robot safety simulation technologies, has emerged from stealth with $12.2 million in seed funding co-led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun, along with Box Group, ...

A robot does not need to feel emotions for a person to become emotionally attached to it. That is one of the clearest lessons ...

Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn, associate professor of computer science at Iowa State University, has devoted much of her career to the development of autonomous vehicles, both in academia and industry ...