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Stanford Researchers Teach This Robot the Unwritten Rules of Walking

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Stanford Researchers Teach This Robot the Unwritten Rules of Walking Companies like Tesla and Google are spending fortunes developing robotic cars that can understand and navigate the convoluted set of rules and social norms that govern our roads. Now, a team of Stanford researchers is designing a robot to tackle an even trickier set of conventions: Life as a pedestrian.

Stanford Researchers Teach This Robot the Unwritten Rules of Walking

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Stanford Researchers Teach This Robot the Unwritten Rules of Walking

newspeak: Word of the day for June 8, 2016

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Word of the day is newspeak : A mode of talk by politicians and officials using ambiguous words to deceive the listener. George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in London on this day in 1949.

newspeak: Word of the day for June 8, 2016

newspeak , n : A mode of talk by politicians and officials using ambiguous words to deceive the listener. George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in London on this day in 1949.

Picture of the day for June 8, 2016

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Las Lajas Sanctuary is a basilica church located in the southern Department of Nariño, municipality of Ipiales, Colombia. The place has been a popular pilgrimage location since the apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1754. The first shrine was built by 1750 and was replaced by a bigger one in 1802, including a bridge over the canyon of the Guáitara River. The present temple, in Gothic Revival style, was built between 1916 and 1949..

Picture of the day for June 8, 2016

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Picture of the day on June 8, 2016: Las Lajas Sanctuary is a basilica church located in the southern Department of Nariño, municipality of Ipiales, Colombia. The place has been a popular pilgrimage location since the apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1754. The first shrine was built by 1750 and was replaced by a bigger one in 1802, including a bridge over the canyon of the Guáitara River. The present temple, in Gothic Revival style, was built between 1916 and 1949.

Man Tries People Who Sued Him For Patent Infringement, They Don't Exist

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Man Tries People Who Sued Him For Patent Infringement, They Don't Exist