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MIT Researchers Taught Autonomous Cars To See Around Corners
Researchers at MIT are helping autonomous cars deliver on the promise of safer roads with a new trick that lets driverless vehicles see around corners to pre-emptively spot other vehicles or moving hazards that human drivers would never see coming.
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They Taught Rats How To Drive
The Lambert Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Richmond has trained rats to drive miniature motorised cars to reach food. They taught rats how to drive.
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MIT Confirms A Bridge Leonardo Da Vinci Designed 500 Years Ago Was An Ancient Engineering Marvel
Some 500 years after his death, researchers are still discovering just how talented and brilliant Leonardo da Vinci was. Architects and civil engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used a 3D printer to create a replica of a bridge da Vinci designed, but never built. To their surprise, not only did it work, but…
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Flying Replacement Batteries Could Massively Boost A Drone’s Flight Time
Borrowing a trick from the Air Force, whose planes can complete long-range missions thanks to in-flight refuelling from tanker aircraft, researchers at UC Berkeley showed off a novel way to keep small drones in the air almost indefinitely: flying replacement batteries that can be swapped without landing.