Mowing the lawn is getting a high-tech upgrade, thanks to robots and AI. The “cool part is we didn’t need to teach this anything. There’s just an on/off button, and it’s semantically aware of its surroundings,” explained Jarrett Herold, co-founder of Electric Sheep. Recently, we met up at Vista Del Valle Park in La Habra […]
Jan. 6—Autonomous technology in Pittsburgh will be the focus, at least for an afternoon, at the world’s largest annual tech event next week. Members of four Pittsburgh-area companies will step onto a Las Vegas showroom stage on Tuesday at the annual CES convention for a panel discussion on “Building Approachable Autonomous Technology in Pittsburgh.” The […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force’s plan to create a fleet of drone wingmen to fly alongside piloted fighter jets will accelerate in 2024, as the service ramps up its experimentation with autonomous flight. These drones, which the Air Force calls collaborative combat aircraft, are intended to fly alongside F-35s and the future Next Generation […]
Dec. 17—GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — Myrna Peterson predicts self-driving vehicles will be a ticket out of isolation and loneliness for people like her, who live outside big cities and have disabilities that prevent them from driving. Peterson, who has quadriplegia, is an enthusiastic participant in an unusual test of autonomous vehicles in this corner of […]