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15 results for "autonomous vehicles"
ZD_2_14 — Autonomous Systems: Self-Driving Vehicles, Drones, and Safety-Critical AI
Autonomous systems are machines capable of performing complex tasks in unstructured, dynamic environments with limited or no human intervention — perceiving their environment through sensors, making decisions through com
S_4_13 — Autonomous Vehicles: Self-Driving, LIDAR, and the Mobility Revolution
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) — automobiles, trucks, and shuttles that use sensors, artificial intelligence, and control systems to navigate without human intervention — represent one of the most anticipated (and overpromise
ZF_5_01 — Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and Ocean Exploration Technology
Ocean exploration technology — from early human-occupied submersibles to modern autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) — has progressively opened the deep ocean to scientific investigation, driving transformative discover
ZD_5_16 — Autonomous Weapons Systems
Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) — also termed lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) — are weapon systems that can select and engage targets without meaningful human control. The debate over these weapons has become o
S_5_04 — Robotics and Automation
Robotics integrates mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science to create machines capable of autonomous or semi-autonomous physical action. Industrial robotics began with Unimate (1961), the fir
S_4_07 — Autonomous Weapons Systems — AI, Lethal Autonomy, and the Future of Warfare
Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) represent one of the most consequential intersections of artificial intelligence and military technology. The trajectory from early automated defensive systems (Phalanx CIWS, 1980) throug
INTERDOC_33 — Technology, Warfare, and the Ethical Thread
The relationship between technology and warfare is not merely that technology enables new weapons — it is that warfare drives technological development more consistently than any other human activity. The bronze sword (~
ZD_2_05 — Robotics and Control Theory
Robotics integrates mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and control theory to design, build, and program machines that sense, reason, and act in the physical world. Control theory — the math
ZD_2_06 — Ethics of AI and Algorithmic Bias
AI ethics examines the moral implications of designing, deploying, and governing artificial intelligence systems, while algorithmic bias refers to systematic errors in automated decision-making that produce unfair outcom
ZE_5_20 — Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
The ethics of artificial intelligence addresses the moral, social, and existential challenges arising from the development and deployment of increasingly powerful AI systems. [KEY FINDING] Core issues span three horizons
ZE_3_09 — Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Consciousness
AI ethics examines the moral dimensions of creating systems that can reason, learn, and act autonomously. The field emerged from theoretical foundations (Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," 1950) but became
S_4_09 — Drone Technology and Unmanned Systems
Drone technology (unmanned aerial vehicles — UAVs/UAS) has evolved from exclusively military systems to pervasive civilian, commercial, and consumer tools. Military origins: the US Predator (first flight 1994) and Reaper
S_1_15 — Edge Computing: Distributed Intelligence and Fog Networks
Edge computing — processing data near the source of generation (at the "edge" of the network) rather than transmitting everything to centralized cloud data centers — addresses three fundamental limitations of cloud-centr
S_3_14 — Agricultural Robotics: Precision Farming and Automated Harvest
Agricultural robotics and precision farming — the application of robotics, sensors, GPS, AI, and data analytics to optimize agricultural production — are transforming food production in response to growing demand (global
J_1_02 — Vimanas & Ancient Flying Vehicles
Descriptions of flying vehicles appear across ancient traditions spanning India, the Middle East, Egypt, Greece, Norse, Chinese, Persian, and Celtic cultures. The most detailed are the Sanskrit vimana texts, particularly
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