Autonomous vehicles

Japanese Companies Develop Thin-film 3D Analog ICs

March 5, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Despite the relentless advance of digital technology into every area of business, industry, and leisure activities, analog integrated circuits (ICs) are holding their own in the global semiconductor market. This year, revenues are forecast to reach US $85 billion—equating to an annual compound growth rate of 10 percent. Driving this…

February 14, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANYGerman Robotics Conference: 13–15…

February 7, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANYGerman Robotics Conference:…

February 1, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge was a spectacular failure. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had offered a US $1 million prize for the team that could design an autonomous ground vehicle capable of completing an off-road course through sometimes flat, sometimes winding and mountainous desert terrain. As IEEE Spectrum…

May 6, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Between Elon Musk’s broken promises of “Full Self-Driving“ and California’s ban on Cruise’s driverless taxis, initial public enthusiasm for autonomous cars has given way to rampant skepticism and regulatory scrutiny.Yet automakers, tech giants, and…

April 30, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

One of the biggest challenges for robotics right now is practical autonomous operation in unstructured environments. That is, doing useful stuff in places your robot hasn’t been before and where things may not be as familiar as your robot might like. Robots thrive on predictability, which has put some irksome…

20 Dec 23

Fear’s Neural Hallmarks Make AI Drive More Safely

Civil, Structural & Architecture

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Driving, say, in the winter or in stormy conditions can induce feelings of fear—and inspire more caution. So could some of the same hallmarks of fear and defensive driving be somehow programmed into a self-driving…

12 Dec 23

How to give AVs a moral compass

Civil, Structural & Architecture

If you were the conductor of a trolley barreling toward two human beings, each one on either end of a fork in the track, could you choose which life to spare?This problem, one of the most famous thought experiments in all of philosophy, was proposed by British philosopher Phillipa Foot…

27 Oct 23

Cruise removes robotaxis from San Francisco following accident

Civil, Structural & Architecture, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The company lost its licence to operate its robotaxis in the city after being accused of “misrepresenting” the safety of the technology and withholding information from regulators. The safety of Cruise’s driverless taxis came into question earlier this month, following an accident in which one of its cars rolled over…

20 Aug 23

Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Auto accidents are responsible for 1.3 million deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization. That’s like losing the city of Prague each year. A switch to self-driving cars and trucks with various types of electronic sensors and sophisticated computers at the helm could save countless lives. But getting this…

Japanese Companies Develop Thin-film 3D Analog ICs

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To Make Cars Safer, Connect Them to Everything

How Field AI Is Conquering Unstructured Autonomy

Fear’s Neural Hallmarks Make AI Drive More Safely

How to give AVs a moral compass

Cruise removes robotaxis from San Francisco following accident

Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane

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