TMC: “IPhone -XRoad Enables Artificial Intelligence in iPhone’s GPS Application.” “XRoad, a provider of location-based guidance products and mobile navigation software and devices, has announced that its GPS application for Apple’s iPhone — G-Map — can make use of artificial intelligence to learn a user’s route preferences and reflects that specific local knowledge in future routing. The app enables users to add route preference guides. For instance they can program the app to skip a possibly icy stretch during winter or steer clear of streets that aren’t suitable to drive through.”

Physorg: “Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Tiny Robots.” “Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, medicine, cleaning, and more. In an effort to reach this goal, a recent study has demonstrated the initial tests for fabricating microrobots on a large scale.”

VentureBeat: “Austrian startup Mobilizy unveils augmented reality driving directions.” ” Austrian startup, Mobilizy, released a navigation system today as an experiment to see if augmented reality can work with driving directions. (Augmented reality involves superimposing data and information over the real world viewed through your phone’s viewfinder.) The idea of using augmented reality in navigation isn’t new. The military has long used it to guide fighter pilots and identify targets, but GPS-enabled smartphones with accelerometers have finally made commercial applications feasible.”