Baidu’s Autonomous Excavators operate 24hrs straight, putting in doubt the future of human operators
When most of us hear about Autonomous Vehicles, we think passenger vehicles and imagine a future where cars will drive us home from the pub, or take the kids to soccer practice. The reality is, the commercial world is also looking to capitilise on the technology to make business operations more efficient and safer. In a new blog post from Chinese search giant Baidu, we learn that researchers in their Robotics and Auto-Driving Lab (RAL) in partnership with the University of Maryland, College Park, have introduced an autonomous excavator system (AES) that can perform material loading tasks for a long duration without any human intervention while offering performance closely equivalent to that of an experienced human operator. AES is among […]
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