News today from the AP that Honda has recently demonstrated a robotic hand controlled by brainwaves. The article goes on to say that Honda believes the technology may eventually have use in automobiles as well. Could this mean no more yelling at the kids to turn down the volume of the DVD player during the [...]
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VW’s Robotic Car Garage
Having a hard time finding space to park the few dozen Porsches and Ferraris in your auto collection? Take a look at this robotic parking garage, located at a Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. According to info over at Snopes and Inside Line, the 20-story towers that house this robotic car-fetcher are used solely to [...]
Ford GT Gets the Transformer Treatment
While many of us may sit in our pens at the cubicle farm and daydream of motoring into the office carpark in a Ford GT or Dodge SRT-10, we can at least have a replica of one on our desks. One of the more memorable car toy concepts to hit the shelves over the last [...]
DARPA Unveils “Urban Challenge” for Robotic Vehicles
Fresh off the success of the DARPA Grand Challenge that saw several robotic vehicles successfully navigate a 131.2 mile road course, DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — recently announced another challenge, now based in an urban environment. From the DARPA news release: “Grand Challenge 2005 proved that autonomous ground vehicles can travel [...]
Automaker input benefits upcoming “Cars” film
The Detroit news has an article by Ann Job that discusses the upcoming Disney/Pixar Cars movie and how closely Director John Lasseter and his crew worked with real-life auto designers during development of the film. According to the article, Pixar solicited input from a variety of car designers and auto makers, include Porsche, Ford Designer [...]
Ford to Shutter Truck Plants
Ford announced today that they plan to close down their Twin Cities Assembly Plant in St. Paul, Minn., and the Norfolk Assembly Plant in Virginia sometime in 2008 as part of their new “Way Forward” plan. From the news release: “A decision to end production at a plant is not an easy one and I’m [...]
