Regulating the development and use of autonomous robots will require a rather more elaborate framework.
Consider, for instance, the possibility that autonomous vehicles will work well enough to replace a lot of inter-city rail.
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Controlled via a tablet computer, the small autonomous aircraft will photograph poachers and track animals via smart radio tags.
Ghosn says autonomous cars will be ready by 2020.
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The key to delivering semi-autonomous capability will be the integration of lane- centering technology that relies on forward-looking cameras to detect lane markings and GPS map data to detect curves and other road characteristics, said John Capp, General Motors director of Global Active Safety Electronics and Innovation.
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Vladimir Polotski, the chief science and technology officer of Autonomous ID, will work with CMU's Savvides and Vijayakumar Bhagavatula to provide researchers with the instructional technology intrinsic to the emerging science of pedo-biometrics.
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On the other hand, cities still have a density advantage that will make autonomous vehicles more economical.
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Will those autonomous spaces be preserved in a world replete with smart technologies?
This may not be fast enough to compete with the first models of autonomous vehicles, which will probably just be normal cars with computer brains and sensors strapped onto them (to put it in technical terms).
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So even though companies like IBM are working on so-called cognitive computers that would mimic human learning and reasoning, there is no chance we will see autonomous drones that can survive the rigors of aerial combat anytime soon.
For those who think we should only focus our effort in developing technologies for driverless cars, my thought is that even if you ride in an autonomous vehicle, you will want to -- and sometimes have to -- switch to "manual mode" from time to time.
On the last of their four-day visit, half the delegation will visit Erbil in the autonomous Kurdish region in the north, while the other half will fly to the southern city of Basra.
The industry will build fully autonomous cars, says Mr Salinger.
Toyota also promoted four non-Japanese managers to oversee regional divisions, which will become more autonomous, including James Lentz, an American who already leads Toyota Motor Sales in the U.S., to head the North American region.
If one can believe that we will have fully autonomous, driverless cars in the future, which many people do, then there is absolutely no reason why one should doubt the possibility of a car driven by the blind safely on public roads.
It will operate in an autonomous mode, monitored from the ground.
It says Volvo will be run as an autonomous entity, headquartered in Sweden, at arm's length from Geely's manufacturing operations in China.
Mr Martin, who says that he will keep Saks as an autonomous division run by its current management, seems aware of some of these dangers.
It will only be used for licensed autonomous test vehicles.
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The argument is that although the Bank of England may theoretically be making autonomous decisions, in practice its freedom of action will be completely constrained by the monetary policy of the much larger euro zone.
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.
The argument for exponential advancement will hold ground only with the help of autonomous, abstract-thinking machines.
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Iraq's largely autonomous northern Kurdish region, which comprises three provinces, will hold its own local elections in September.
Even when semi-autonomous driving capability is available on vehicles, the system will have operational limitations based on external factors such as weather and visibility of lane markings.
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The swarmanoid that we intend to build will be comprised of numerous (about 60) autonomous robots of three types: eye-bots, hand-bots, and foot-bots.
There are plenty of people in industry and the military who want to solve the autonomous-vehicle problem, says Ms Walker, and they will be watching the race closely.
The University Network will include in its initial phase eight universities: Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), University of the West Indies (Jamaica), Cairo University (Egypt), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Temple University (USA), Beijing Tsinghua University (China), Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Morocco) and Queensland University of Technology (Australia).
"The End of the Road, " and so on, the presumption being that with autonomous mobility and intelligent highway technology, something valuable, something defining will have been lost.
The system will be made up of heterogeneous, dynamically connected, small autonomous robots.
So will cities, suburbs, or exurbs be the winners from autonomous vehicles?
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