Meet Musashi, the robot chauffeur

A humanoid robot that can drive a car could one day be used as a robot chauffeur, though its creator concedes that this may take at least fifty years. Kento Kawaharazuka 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. Musashi has a human-like skeleton and musculature, as well as cameras in each of its eyes and force sensors in its hands and feet, and uses artificial intelligence to convert what it sees and feels into driving. Learn more ➤ Subscribe ➤ Get more from New Scientist: Official website: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: LinkedIn: About New Scientist: New Scientist was founded in 1956 for “all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences”. Today our website, videos, newsletters, app, podcast and print magazine cover the world’s most important, exciting and entertaining science news as well as asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human. New Scientist