Robotic Revolution

January / February, 2015

DRIVERLESS CARS, DRONES AND OTHER AUTOMATONS ARE TAKING OVER Vour car drives you home while a drone delivers the latest microbrew to your doorstep: It could happen. The idea for driverless cars dates back to the Roaring Twenties, when the radio-controlled Linrrican Won­der negotiated Manhattan's busy Fifth Avenue. By 1995 a humanless Mercedes-Benz S-CIass car had traveled 990 miles through Europe, some­times at 109 miles an hour. Three years ago Google unveiled a robotic car with an eyelike GPS...