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Brief history of self-driving cars - video post

year 1956: General Motors a future vision of autonomous driving year  1986: NavLab first autonomous car in the world, revolutionary application it was very slow and was fully packed with electronics needed for data processing years 1984 - 1994: NavLab from small and slow autonomous robots in closed environments towards first autonomous cars tested on real roads control actions are based on multiple independent control modelues years 1986 - 1996: NavLab size minimization of the electronic devices - from vans to sedans automatic control still unreliable and full of faults years  1986 - 2003: VaMoRs Mercedes Van 9 years of research and development 20km autonomous drive with a max speed of 96km/h year 1989: obstacle detection year 1990: autonomous lanne change yer 1992: ALVIN  one of the first applications of artificial intelligence in autonomous driving artificial neural networks learn from human driver how to control a car sma...

Industrial Robots Showtime - video post

Industrial robots demonstrating their abilities: speed precision endurance durability minimal error repeatability learning Robot samurai  Robot plays snooker  Robot plays table tennis with the best player in the world Ping pong robot trains human players Robotic tea ceremony Precise movement control Yumi robot folds paper planes Yumi robot solves Rubik's cube Yumi robot makes pancakes Robots play various games and demonstrate their skills

Use of Industrial Robots - video post

Happy start: robots playing music robots playing the drums robots playing the piano robot learns how to conduct the orchestra with Andrea Bocelli in a few days Industrial robots in practice 10 most common applications for industrial robots Other examples of industrial robots applications: welding sorting packing palletizing screwing milling car assembly nailing pick and place painting CPU assembly carbon fibres materials production large scale 3D printing and many more applications...