This Week In Bots: Self-Driving Cars, Robo-Surgeons, And Foxconn’s Robot Army

France Has Self-Driving Cars Too Google doesn’t have the monopoly on clever self-driving cars, and now France has joined the fray . Deveoped by research company IFSTTAR and engineers from the ESIGELEC school in Rouen, the machine is a Renault vehicle that’s been heavily modified to turn its wheel and operate its pedal controls. The roof is peppered with sensors, including GPS, cameras to monitor around the car and the lanes in front of it and a LIDAR system on the nose to accurately determine the positions of other vehicles and unexpected alerts like a pedestrian.

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This Week In Bots: Self-Driving Cars, Robo-Surgeons, And Foxconn’s Robot Army