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% Whether you want it or not, robotic helpers are here today, and being implemented in many ways for tomorrow's applications % http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/01/03/self-feeding-robots-robots-plug-themselves-wall-outlets Self-Feeding Robots: Robots that Plug Themselves Into Wall Outlets January 3, 2010 by Travis Deyle http://bdm.cc/pubs/plugin.pdf Robot, Feed Thyself: Plugging In to Unmodified Electrical Outlets by Sensing Emitted AC Electric Fields Brian Mayton, Louis LeGrand, and Joshua R. Smith [video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNWN42tksSk&list=PL7A7EgkgM3rnrnLkO6d6GLXS8ufUFJXnV&index=3 Robotic charger for electric vehicle - Part 3 Stefano Linari Apr 16, 2011 (Italian> google.translate> English Prototype of an automatic charging of electric cars in the parking lot. Powered by Linari Engineering LTD for Generplus S.p.A.) Prototipo di un sistema automatico di ricarica di auto elettriche durante il parcheggio. Realizzato da Linari Engineering s.r.l. per Generplus S.p.A ] http://www.cnet.com/products/irobot-self-charging-home-base-vacuum-cleaner-charger/ iRobot Self-Charging Home Base - vacuum cleaner charger Part Number: 81003 $98.99 http://www.slashgear.com/teslas-elon-musk-seeking-engineers-for-autonomous-driving-project-18298415/ Tesla’s Elon Musk seeking engineers for autonomous driving project Sep 18, 2013 ... http://news.investors.com/technology/080114-711430-tsla-is-not-showing-all-its-cards-elon-musk-says.htm Video: Tesla Surprise Hinted, Maybe Self-Driving Car Investor's Business Daily-by Patrick Seitz-Aug 1, 2014 Tesla is looking at semi-autonomous car technology, which could handle most driving, particularly on highways. Musk previously has said that Tesla would lead ... http://www.ibtimes.com/elon-musk-warns-artificial-intelligence-greater-threat-nuclear-weapons-ai-here-stay-1649532 Elon Musk Warns Artificial Intelligence Is A Greater Threat Than ... International Business Times-by Jeff Stone-Aug 5, 2014 The mobile robotic system Justin with its compliant controlled light weight arms and its two four finger hands allows the long range autonomous operation of the ... http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/08/04/elon-musk-is-more-dangerous-than-ai/ Elon Musk is More Dangerous than AI h+ Magazine-by Peter Rothman-Aug 4, 2014 Now usually I am a huge fan of Mr. Musk, his approach to innovation, and .... Elon Musk is more dangerous than AI because he is autonomous and free to act in ... http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/187467-elon-musk-warns-us-that-human-level-ai-is-more-dangerous-than-nukes Elon Musk warns us that human-level AI is 'potentially more ... ExtremeTech-by Mr Seb-Aug 4, 2014 Elon Musk, the mastermind behind SpaceX and Tesla, believes that artificial .... I don't think we need to be anywhere close to human level autonomous AI. I think For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date {brucedp.150m.com} - On Wed, Aug 6, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Ben Goren via EV wrote: > On Aug 6, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > wrote: > > >> expecting the car to plug itself into a wall outlet / cable is asking a > >> bit much. > > > > Actually If I had the time (after I retire maybe) I can easily imagin a > > robot arm on the garage wall that can reach out, find and connect to > some > > contacts mounted somehow on the front license plate area. > > That's a lot of moving parts to break, especially considering how many > people have trouble not running over things in the garage already. Plus > the hazard of people or pets or other things getting caught up in the > mechanism ... > > A pseudo-taxi that could drive itself to a charging station and then > drive away when its battery is full would make lots of sense. The same > pseudo-taxi that needed an human to stand around waiting for the > pseudo-taxi to arrive to connect the charger, and then be there to > disconnect the charger when the pseudo-taxi is charged...that's gonna be > a non-starter. - - On Wed, Aug 6, 2014, at 11:33 AM, John Lussmyer via EV wrote: > On Wed Aug 06 11:20:13 PDT 2014 ev@lists.evdl.org said: > >A pseudo-taxi that could drive itself to a charging station and then > drive away when its battery is full would make lots of sense. The same > pseudo-taxi that needed an human to stand around waiting for the > pseudo-taxi to arrive to connect the charger, and then be there to > disconnect the charger when the pseudo-taxi is charged...that's gonna be a > non-starter. > > Actually, I could see having one (or more if needed) people working at > the Taxi Depot to do charger Plugin/Unplug - AND check the Taxi for > things like damage, stuff left in the car, etc... > One guy could probably handle dozens of taxis. - -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Autonomous-irobot-arm-charging-EVLN-i3-EV-self-parks-tp4670866.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
