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The secret ingredients for producing sleek vehicles for years have been common knowledge to only car manufacturers.But now, the wizards from Silicon Valley are eclipsing powerful engines and sleek bodywork with invisible algorithms.Until recently, self-driving cars were no more than pie in the sky. But suddenly, everyone is in a rush. Even legislators, who are generally not known for acting quickly.

Nissan recently stated they are planning to have fully autonomous cars ready as showpiece taxis for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Before that, much of the technology will be added in some existing models of Nissan like Qashqai by 2018.In the same manner, other auto brands are not too behind in developing robotic cars.

Aerial dogfighting began more than a century ago in the skies over Europe with propeller-driven fighter aircraft carried aloft on wings of fabric and wood. An event held recently in southern California could mark the beginning of a new chapter in this form of aerial combat.

In a series of experiments using teams of human players and robotic AI players, the inclusion of 'bots' boosted the performance of human groups and the individual players, researchers found. The study appears in the journalNature.

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a team of free-flying robots that obeys the two rules of the air: don’t collide or undercut each other. They’ve also built autonomous blimps that recognise hand gestures and detect faces.Both projects will be presented at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) May 29 – June 3 in Singapore.

Texas Instruments is bringing precision and intelligence to a range of applications spanning the automotive, factory and building automation, and medical markets.

Cypress Semiconductor has announced that Bosch has selected Cypress’ automotive-grade Serial NOR Flash memories for its next-generation video-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Cypress’ Quad Serial NOR Flash product family offers the highest performance, combined with scalability, safety and security for modern ADAS platforms that will be used to enable co-pilot functionality and fully automated cars.

The Great Wall of China is regarded as the longest running construction project of all time. The wall took more than 2000 years and millions of workers to complete. At the time, labourers used only simple machinery to build the wall — a vast difference from the equipment used in construction today. Here, Jonathan Wilkins, marketing director of obsolete industrial parts supplier EU Automation, discusses the use of automation in 21st century ...

In one of MIT’s most eagerly awaited annual events, Thursday night dozens of robots designed and built by undergraduates in a mechanical engineering class endured hours of intense, boisterous, and often jubilant competition as they scrambled to rack up points in one-on-one clashes on special “Star Wars”-themed playing arenas.

LDD Technology provides a range electronic design services to meet the needs of a wide range of customers from development houses to major international OEMs. Two key elements of any new design are PCB design and device programming. As this expertise may not be required by OEMs on a regular basis it is common to outsource these functions to an external development house.