{"id":233255,"date":"2024-06-17T15:35:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T15:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/watch-a-humanoid-robot-driving-a-car-extremely-slowly\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:16:52","slug":"watch-a-humanoid-robot-driving-a-car-extremely-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/watch-a-humanoid-robot-driving-a-car-extremely-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a humanoid robot driving a car extremely slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n    <iframe title=\"Meet Musashi, the robot chauffeur\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tC3_vUPMJzw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n    <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2423793-why-giving-ai-a-robot-body-could-make-its-brain-more-human-like\/\">humanoid robot<\/a> that can drive a car could one day be used as a chauffeur, though its creator concedes that this may take at least 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2387054-california-approves-driverless-taxi-expansion-in-san-francisco\/\">driverless cars<\/a> work very differently to a human driver, using artificial intelligence and custom mechanical systems to directly move the steering wheel and pedals. This approach is much more efficient and simpler than using a humanoid robot to drive, but it is also bespoke for each particular car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/haraduka.github.io\/\">Kento Kawaharazuka<\/a> at the University of Tokyo and his colleagues have developed a humanoid robot, called Musashi, that can drive a car in the same way as a human. It has a human-like \u201cskeleton\u201d and \u201cmusculature\u201d, as well as cameras in each of its eyes and force sensors in its hands and feet. Artificial intelligence systems work out what actions are needed to drive the car and react to events such as traffic lights changing colour or a person stepping in front of the car.<\/p>\n<p>The robot can only perform a limited range of driving tasks at present, such as going forward in a straight line or taking a right-hand turn, moving at speeds of around 5 kilometres per hour on non-public roads. \u201cThe speed of the pedal or the velocity of the car is not high. Also the handling of the car is not fast compared to human beings,\u201d says Kawaharazuka.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"js-content-prompt-opportunity\"\/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"899\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17135759\/SEI_208710034.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2435825\" data-caption=\"Musashi is a humanoid robot that controls a car in the same way as a human\" data-credit=\"Kento Kawaharazuka et al. 2024\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Musashi is a humanoid robot that controls a car in the same way as a human<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Kento Kawaharazuka et al. 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>However, Kawaharazuka hopes that once the system improves, it will be able to work in any car, which could be useful for when humanoid robots are routinely produced. \u201cI\u2019m not looking 10 or 20 years in the future, but I\u2019m looking 50 or 100 years away,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study is potentially interesting for people developing humanoid robots, but doesn\u2019t tell us much about autonomous driving,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/sts\/people\/dr-jack-stilgoe\">Jack Stilgoe<\/a> at University College London. \u201cSelf-driving cars don\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t drive like humans. The technology doesn\u2019t have to rely on limbs and eyes so it can find other, safer, more useful ways to move through the world, relying on digital maps and dedicated infrastructures.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"ArticleTopics\">\n<p class=\"ArticleTopics__Heading\">Topics:<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2435826-watch-a-humanoid-robot-driving-a-car-extremely-slowly\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A humanoid robot that can drive a car could one day be used as a chauffeur, though its creator concedes that this may take<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}