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"...BMW is testing a 5 series sedan equipped with advanced autonomous technology..."

"The system uses a combination of radar, LIDAR, ultrasound, video and highly detailed GPS maps to sense the vehicle’s own position in relation to its surroundings, including oncoming traffic."…

"What do you get when you cross a dj with a Canadian roboticist? An almost true-to-fiction Wall-E, that's what."

"For 25 years, the field of robotics has been bedeviled by a fundamental problem: If a robot is to move through the world, it needs to be able to create a map of its environment and understand its place within it. Roboticists have developed tools to accomplish this task, known as simultaneous localization and mapping, or SLAM. But the sensors required to build that map have traditionally been either expensive and bulky or cheap and inaccurate. Laser arrays cost…

"It seems impossible, but apparently nobody has ever made a chocolate-laying 3-D printer before now. Thankfully, that oversight has been remedied by Dr Liang Hao and his team, of the University of Exeter in England..."…

"(PhysOrg.com) -- Two professors from the University of Illinois; one specializing in materials science, the other in electrical engineering, have combined their talents to take the idea of printing circuits onto non-standard materials one step further by developing a conductive ink that can be used in a traditional rollerball ink pen to draw circuits by hand onto paper and other porous materials. In their paper published in Advanced Materials, team leads Jennifer Lewis,…

This is a cool looking kit - anyone know anything about it? Videos? Photos? Anything?

http://www.diybin.com/products/Solarbotics-Make-Volume-06-SolarRoller-Bundle.html

It reminds me of the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - one of the hot rods that the bad guys would ride around!

Maybe someone out there knows the answer to this question - can this kit

http://www.diybin.com/products/Solarbotics-Sumovore-Mini%252dSumo.html

Compete with the sumo bot reviewed on the RUG from Parallax? Has anyone used this kit to compete for real?

Solarbotics always has an interesting way of putting their kits together - you build them from the ground up and wind up with something very interesting. however in this case - I am not sure what to think about this one?

http://www.diybin.com/products/Solarbotics-SolarSpeeder-V2.0.html

Has anyone used it?

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/05/st_qalott/

At first glance you think - this kit isn't all that - but it comes with a FEZ mini and complete with everything you need to experiment with!

http://www.diybin.com/products/GHI-Electronics-FEZ-Mini-Robot-Kit.html

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/nasa-robot-hovers/…

Anyone please anyone out there in lala land please please post a video or something about this kit! Wicked!!

http://www.diybin.com/products/DFRobot-X650-XAircraft-Carbon-Fiber-Kit.html