Auto makers have reached a challenging phase of development in the push toward self-driving technology: how exactly to pass control back and forth between driver and machine.

This is an omni-directional wheel, but the little wheels around its circumference are powered so it can also move sideways. How well will a robot using this wheel be able to balance?

For the budding roboticist, omniwheels might be the next step in design patterns from your everyday “getting-started” robot kits. These wheels consist of tiny rollers that sit on the pe… ...

The robot uses a single motor to drive its hemispherical omnidirectional gimbaled wheel, propelling it across the floor at amazing speeds with uncanny agility.

Robot cars: Not just for Silicon Valley.Nissan’s head of autonomous vehicle research, Maarten Sierhuis, said the question of who takes the wheel, and when, will be determined by circumstance. On ...