General Motors and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new Collaborative Research Lab (CRL) and a renewed commitment to work jointly on technologies that will accelerate the emerging field of autonomous driving, looking to future achievement for  the driverless vehicle (UGV, ANV: Automatic Navigation Vehicle).
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The European Space Agency carried out the launch of a robot freighter designed to rendezvous automatically with the orbital space station.

The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), named Jules Verne, is a nearly 20-tonne payload , it was aboard an Ariane 5 launcher. After being placed in orbit, the cylinder craft will deploy its solar panels and gently find its way to the International Space Station (ISS) and berth with it.
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Boss, a car with sensors and computers by a team of engineers from Carnegie Mellon University, won the most famous of robotic races: the Urban Challenge. With no human assistance, the vehicles competing in the race had to safely and quickly navigate city streets while staying in their lanes and avoiding other moving and parked cars.
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The author of this paper introduces a briefing of the foreseen evolution, in the long term, of transport technology and its impacts and benefits for society, based in the background of already covered and ongoing milestones, and in the existing state of the art, to perform the vision of its future. Read the rest of this entry »