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Humanoid Robot Nao Learns to Drive Its Own Car

Posted September 10, 2014 11:26 AM

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Robots have proven to be not that great at driving cars. Robot cars are just fine at driving themselves, but that's much different than putting a robot (humanoid or otherwise) behind the wheel of a vehicle designed for humans. The very fancy and expensive robots at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials had a tough time trying to make it work, but for Aldebaran's humanoid Nao, it's a cinch, with his brand new little kid (or little robot) sized electric BMW Z4 from RobotsLab, a seller of educational robots based in San Francisco, Calif.

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09/10/2014 5:30 PM

I hope nobody teaches it to drink coffee/shave/read newspaper/text/put on make up/pull suddenly across three lanes to get a lotto ticket/have a sound system so loud that the paint comes off the trunk/leaves the HID headlights on high/etcetera.

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09/11/2014 10:46 AM

Someone snatched some of the drive belts!

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09/11/2014 3:38 PM

How long is the cord?

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