Ed Massey, project manager for the Voyager mission, points out that no matter how clever and autonomous a probe is, it can only get itself out of situations it has been programmed to cope with.
But oddly enough, no automaker yet has public plans to fit such a fully autonomous system to a showroom vehicle.
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In Barcelona a few days ago, Volvo demonstrated a platoon of autonomous cars on a motorway.
"In the ultimate sense, we are looking for something that is autonomous like a biological machine, " Gracias says.
Back in 2010, avionics manufacturer Rockwell Collins successfully demonstrated a fully autonomous landing system in a stock single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza.
In principle, both sides have seemed to agree that Cyprus could be a loose federation consisting of two semi-autonomous communities living under a modest central government.
While key components of these research efforts could lead to a fully autonomous car in the future, the vision is not necessarily a car that drives itself.
That's why technology providers are promoting the idea of autonomous computing, a vision of systems that can monitor, administer and repair themselves.
They set up skunk works (small, autonomous units with a remit to innovate) and mock the boring corporate types who write their pay-cheques.
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Recently, the autonomous fleet passed a significant milestone by logging over 300, 000 miles, and employees would now start commuting with the cars on their daily routes.
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Following investigation, "poisoning, sexual assault and homicide had been ruled out as causes of death", the statement said, describing her death as an "autonomous fall from a height".
According to the paper, one such example are cameras at an airport or bus stations with an autonomous system flagging a bag abandoned for more than a few minutes.
We began our conversation with that controversial truce in Pakistan's semi-autonomous territories, a region Musharraf says the Pakistan government, like the colonial British before them, has not been able to govern.
But a bigger leap was just announced: The jointly funded Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation and Assessment (ASTRAEA) group in the U.K. is going to begin autonomous flight trials using a 19-seat Jetstream 31 commuter aircraft.
But bringing it back to the new age-old question what is a robot, Bokhari believes a robot is an intelligent, autonomous machine capable of doing a range of specialized tasks.
"It's quite remarkable to me that people are assuming that somehow we're at a new stage in political or institutional or economic development in Mexico, " said John Ackerman, a law professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a visiting scholar at American University in Washington.
Without driving one, 37% of drivers aged 18 to 37 would definitely or probably buy a vehicle capable of fully autonomous driving, according to a JD Power research survey.
Google has a fleet of autonomous Toyota Priuses and other cars (see photo below), which together have covered a million miles.
Not only does the robot look Terminator-esque, but it's been designed to mimic the muscle system of a human (with bone-crushing strength, of course) and will be programmed with a semi-autonomous AI so that the android can learn new tasks, all of which is just a little too much like the Terminator for our comfort.
Greenland, a vast autonomous Danish territory, is not in the EU, even though Denmark is.
Autonomous driving is also a potential profit center for a variety of technology suppliers.
"It's still unusual to see eight autonomous data centers making a single system, " he said.
Regulating the development and use of autonomous robots will require a rather more elaborate framework.
Are they a fairly autonomous worker, or are they highly dependent upon others to complete their work?
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They receive their commissions in lieu of overtime and enjoy a largely autonomous work-life outside of an office.
Remote or autonomous systems can collect a far greater volume of useful scientific data for far less money.
One factor that contributes to making a robot autonomous is their power supply.
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The autonomous car idea got a boost in 2010 when Google Inc. disclosed its effort to perfect the technology.
The spread of more autonomous schools has created a gap in accountability, which has been filled in a piecemeal way.
Many Shiites want a similar autonomous region in southern Iraq, where they are the vast majority, and they have supported Kurdish autonomy.
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