Lamborghini Aventador Replacement Previewed By Mysterious MIT Project Car
6 Nov 2017, 09:55 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The Italian carmaker and the MIT have been working on a surprise project that's said to show both a design direction for the brand but some new tech as well
Autonomous Cars and Drones Should Morph to Create a Hybrid Vehicle, MIT Says
27 Jun 2017, 13:41 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Driving is more energy-efficient than flying, but it is prone to jams and restricted to the road infrastructure. An MIT team takes the best of the two worlds
Toyota Pleads for the Use of Bitcoin Tech in Smart Cars
24 May 2017, 16:37 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Toyota and MIT are worried about how the data obtained from our future interconnected vehicles will travel around, and they think they've found a solution
3,000 Ride-Sharing Cars Could Satisfy NYC's Need for Taxis, Free Traffic
3 Jan 2017, 18:33 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / An MIT study shows that a little over 20 percent of the current number of taxis in New York City could do the job if people were OK with sharing a ride
MIT Wants to Know What Crucial Choices You Think Autonomous Cars Should Make
4 Oct 2016, 14:06 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Kill the occupants or the pedestrians crossing on green? Hit the overweight man or the jogging girl? Just a few examples of the hard choices an AI should expect
Autonomous Boats Will Roam Through Amsterdam's Canals Starting with 2017
19 Sep 2016, 17:23 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / After the skies, the autonomous technology is switching mediums once again by leaving the land and setting sail on water
Ford Teams Up With MIT To Predict Demand For Electric Shuttles
28 Jul 2016, 16:43 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Ford and MIT have announced a joint research project that will monitor pedestrian traffic with LIDAR and cameras. It predicts demand for electric shuttles
Toyota's "Guardian Angel" System Is Its First Step Toward Self-Driving Cars
8 Apr 2016, 12:44 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Toyota has been pretty quiet about the whole autonomous vehicles revolution, but it's slowly starting to show what that $1 billion investment last year was for
MIT Researchers Come Up with Traffic Lights-Free Intersections
21 Mar 2016, 14:13 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The first cars didn't have to deal with traffic lights, so in some ways, we're going back into the past, only on a much more hi-tech route
Toyota Will Invest $50 Million in Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Crashes, Injuries and Deaths
5 Sep 2015, 09:51 UTC · By: Tudor Rus / Toyota thinks robots - or artificial intelligence, better said - can be used to protect humans, by being used on the cars we drive
Watch MIT's Cheetah Robot Walking on the Street Like a Dog
7 Aug 2015, 17:01 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / MIT has been working on the Cheetah robot for several years now, always improving the beast. This time around it's walking on the stret like a dog; it's scary
MIT's Cheetah Is a Running, Jumping Electric Robot
16 Sep 2014, 18:08 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Because regular cars with round wheels are just too mainstream these days, engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made a big four-legged robot that runs and jumps like a wild an...
Robots Of The Future Are Origami-style and Able To Self Assemble
11 Aug 2014, 16:50 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The latest project researchers from Harvard University and MIT are working at is a origami-inspired robot that self-assembles and then walks away under its own power. Even though it’s still in...
Ford Kicks Off New Automated Driving Research Projects
22 Jan 2014, 17:08 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Ford Motor Company has announced a new project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to research and develop automated driving for automobiles is underway. Buildi...
OnStar Student Developer Challenge Finds Its Winners
26 Apr 2011, 08:12 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Launched in mid-January, the OnStar Student Developer Challenge, a competition intended for students who can develop the company's app of the future, has finally announced its winners. Specific...
MIT-Developed Unmanned Robotic Toyota Lift Truck
20 Jul 2010, 08:45 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / U.S. Army Logistics Innovation Agency (LIA) recently hosted a series of demonstrations involving a Toyota 8-Series lift truck modified by MIT, specially developed for high-risk work environments, su...
Coskata Named MIT Top Innovative Company
26 Feb 2010, 07:47 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / General Motors recently revealed that Coskata Inc., a start-up ethanol company with whom it partnered in early 2008 to use its technology, has been named one of the 50 top innovative companies in th...
Ford and MIT Team Up for Driver Stress Reducing Tech
4 Jan 2010, 07:42 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / US-based car manufacturer Ford recently announced that it has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to research and develop new driver stress reducing technology that would ...
Audi Works on Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
6 Nov 2009, 08:30 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / People seem to show a continuous need to have more. Nothing is ever good enough, so they keep searching for a better version. That's great, as we agree that this kind of thinking is the one tha...
MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team Introduces "Eleanor"
2 Mar 2009, 14:18 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / Solar-powered cars may be an interesting means of transportation in a sunny future. This future might be closer than we have imagined as MIT's Solar Electric Vehicle Team has just finished the ...