AIDA Is Your Dashboard Back Seat Driving Robot
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 30 of October , 2009 at 3:14 am
As if you don’t have enough distractions while driving, the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab and MIT’s SENSEable City Lab have teamed up to create AIDA, a robot that lives in your dashboard, is way smarter than you, and has no compunctions about letting you know it:
AIDA is actually watching you while you drive, paying attention to your expressions and even measuring your galvanic skin response through the steering wheel. Based on your driving habits, AIDA will suggest how you can be safer or more efficient. The robot is designed to use expressions to intuitively convey information, something that MIT has a lot of experience with. You know who AIDA reminds me of, though?
AIDA may have her dad’s skinny neck and blocky head, but her face is all mom.
I’ll bet you can’t guess who’s helping sponsor this project… Here’s a hint: it’s not Pixar. Yep, it’s Audi. AKA Volkswagen. AKA the robot car company. AIDA was, in fact, developed in partnership with the Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab out in Palo Alto. It’s really, I dunno, inspiring or something to see a major car company investing so much in future technology. Next time I buy a new car, which is probably going to be never (94 Volvo wagon FTW!), it might very well be a Volkswagen, especially if it can park itself.
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Comment by classy
Made Sunday, 1 of November , 2009 at 5:53 pm
now this is awesome! finally a computer that has personality and seems sentient,
i hope this will revolutionize the car industry and cars drive themselves so i don thave to waste time steering when i can be eating
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