Google licenses Stanford robotic car technology for 3D maps
Google has licensed the sensing technology developed by a team of Stanford University students that enabled Stanley, a robotic car, to win a 131 mile race through the Mojave Desert last year.
The Mercury News’ Elise Ackerman reports that Google will use the sensing technology — which lets the car map out the terrain in front of it so that it can steer and change gears without a person at the wheel — to map… Continue Reading