Just to keep things “equal” here, since earlier I did a post on Japanese car company robots, are some videos of robots made by American car companies. First up, General Motors.

General Motors hasn’t created a robot in the same sense of Honda or Toyota. Instead, they created a car that can drive itself. It appears to have collision detection and everything.

As you can see, it does a pretty good job, though it appears to be doing a lot of very tiny corrections while it drives. I think that would make the passengers a bit nuts. However, other than that and the incredibly bulky sensor array at the top, this is pretty cool.

Spotted at the Baltimore Auto Show was a Ford robot. Now this one looks a little more like the ones Honda and Toyota made. Except for a couple of things.

First, he is very jerky. Second, he isn’t actually made by Ford. Third that is either a person talking from behind a curtain somewhere or they have somehow gotten the robot from Flight of the Navigator to do voice work for them (this would be the robot’s voice before he turned into Pee Wee Herman).

Ford – this is just a giant fail.

Now on to Chrysler. They have a robot too – one that is very different from the rest. Theirs might be the greatest robot of all time.

This robot pours beer.

Ok, so it isn’t pretty. Also, this is clearly a side-project. But hey! It pours beer! What more do you want, really?

So there you go! The American auto company entries into the robot world. Not quite as cool – but then, these are car companies. So I am not being judgmental here. Just pointing out the differences.