Chevy Concept Car and Volvo on the Road

Chevrolet debuted its Chevrolet-FNR, an electric, autonomous "concept car" at the Shangai GM Gala Night event earlier today.

Iowa wants to start certifying roads for driverless cars. The University of Iowa will be hosting a semi-automated Volvo prototype and it wishes to copy the Swedes, who have the only road in the world certified for driverless vehicles. Sweden will need that road soon as Volvo plans to have 100 driverless cars on its roads in 2017.

Robotic lawnmowers are on the way to the U.S. Astronomers are unhappy, however, with their demand for more space on the FCC-regulated wireless spectrum. These machines are already happily mowing lawns in Europe, sort of like the vacuum and pool bots we have here.