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1 Five questions for autonomous car pioneer Chris Urmson
Phys.Org
After leaving a leadership post at Google's autonomous car unit, Chris Urmson and two other self-driving vehicle pioneers are back in the race with a new company that will rival their former employers. Aurora Innovation on Thursday announced that it had signed partnerships with Hyundai and ...
https://phys.org/news/2018-01-autonomous-car-chris-urmson.html
2 Baidu taps BlackBerry software for autonomous platform
Business Insider
In addition, Baidu will integrate its CarLife smartphone software, DeurOS voice assistant, and high-definition maps into QNX for use in self-driving cars using the company's software. Apollo is an open autonomous car software platform that any developer or company can code from It was unveiled in July ...
http://uk.businessinsider.com/baidu-taps-blackberry-software-for-autonomous-platform-2018-1
3 致力成为“机器人领域的大疆”，这家公司一年完成了三轮千万美金融资
机器人网 (新闻发布)
大多数传统机器人所使用的是单线激光雷达SLAM技术，可以实现二维地图环境下的定位与导航。不同的是，该机器人使用了视觉定位导航(VSLAM)与环境理解（CV）技术，以摄像头为主要传感器，完成三维空间的定位与环境理解。目前，全球类似的技术突破还屈指可数。 据齐欧介绍，使用这款仓储协作机器人后， ...
https://www.roboticschina.com/news/201801051718.html
4 北京将开放首批无人车测试道路普通人能试乘吗？
新华网
也就是说，自动驾驶仍然需要驾驶员，由人和机器共同驾驶汽车。 北京航空航天大学 ... 据媒体报道，百度、滴滴、京东等公司都有申请意向，车型包括货车、汽车，但目前还没有公司正式提出申请。 ... 道路的改造会与自动驾驶车辆'握手'，比如信号、标志、标线等等的改造，各种交通标识会让无人驾驶车辆可以识别。
http://www.xinhuanet.com/legal/2018-01/06/c_1122218554.htm
5 UC Irvine grad works to make a self-driving car costing under $10000
【M一句话点评：不到7万人民币的自动驾驶汽车！】
Los Angeles Times
With help from Liu's UCI graduate advisor Jean-Luc Gaudiot, the company also is using heterogeneous chips that can assign tasks to different computing units in the vehicle. “If we were to try and do autonomous driving with conventional computer chips, it would consume a lot of power,” Gaudiot said.
http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-driverless-cars-20180105-story.html
6 Israeli self-driving car startup Innoviz launches advanced LiDAR
SiliconANGLE News (blog)
Israeli startup Innoviz Technologies Inc. has commercially launched its first high-definition solid-state LiDAR product. The company today said its InnovizPro delivers superior performance at a significantly lower cost and smaller size than existing solutions through a platform designed for next-generation ...
https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/01/05/israeli-self-driving-car-startup-innoviz-launches-first-solild-start-hd-lidar/
7 Startup forges partnerships for self-driving cars
【M一句话点评：继Thrun之后，又一位从谷歌自动驾驶汽车高管岗位上离职的创业者。这回就是冲着无人驾驶汽车来的。】
Palo Alto Online
A Palo Alto startup launched by a trio of self-driving car pioneers expects to bring its driverless technology to the streets on some of the best-known car brands in the world by 2021. Auorora Innovation, whose founders led early autonomous-vehicle efforts at Google, Tesla and Uber, announced on ...
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/01/05/with-new-partnerships-palo-alto-startup-boosts-self-driving-cars
8 The light and dark of AI-powered smartphones
TechCrunch
Analyst Gartner put out a 10-strong listicle this week identifying what it dubbed “high-impact” uses for AI-powered features on smartphones that it suggests will enable device vendors to provide “more value” to customers via the medium of “more advanced” user experiences. It's also predicting that, ...
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/06/the-light-and-dark-of-ai-powered-smartphones/
9 Who Will Win the Golden Globe For Best Actress? AI Predicts
Inverse
To predict the result of this and other categories, Unanimous A.I. used what's known as swarm intelligence to forecast these two actress categories. About 50 people worked together as a hive mind to make picks. As you can see in the two animation below, each participant controlled a little golden ...
https://www.inverse.com/article/39976-lady-bird-golden-globes-swarm-ai-shape-of-water-saoirse-ronan
10 AI Predicts 'Shape of Water' Will Clean Up at Golden Globes
Inverse
If you're placing any Golden Globes bets, then maybe you might want to consider what the latest A.I. predictions are saying. In both Golden Globes Best Picture categories — comedy and drama — Unanimous A.I. and applied their unique systems to forecast possible winners. And it looks like this year, ...
https://www.inverse.com/article/39977-golden-globes-75-2018-shape-of-water-predicitions-swarm-ai-dunkirk
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