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Do Not Board Elavator With Robot
Funny story over at BoingBoing about guy at Stanford Medical who got onto an elevator with a hospital robot. The robot was about the size of washing machine and designed to deliver x-rays. The robot nearly knocked him over in the elevator. Since then it appears a sign has been put up. Link via (BoingBoing)
Stanford’s Autonomous Helicopters Teach Themselves To Fly
A three man team of computer scientists at Stanford University have created helicopter that can fly themselves. The helicopters learn maneuvers by watching other helicopters. A remote control pilot flies another helicopter while orientation, direction, velocity and acceleration are measured. A ground based computer crunches the data and talks to the Stanford helicopter via radio [...]