Baidu Apollo head says technical issues and high costs likely to delay full roll-out of robotaxis until 2025
The head of Baidu’s autonomous driving open platform said that full commercial operations are still several years away with technical...
Read MoreBackup driver in fatal Arizona Uber self-driving car crash charged with negligent homicide
PHOENIX — The backup Uber driver involved in the first self-driving vehicle fatality has been charged with negligent homicide for being...
Read MoreAutonomous bus makes debut in China’s Chongqing
CHONGQING, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — A medium-sized bus equipped with autonomous driving technologies made its debut Thursday in Chongqing...
Read MoreShanghai plans to launch ICV road testing fully across Jiading District by 2022
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Chinese megacity Shanghai has so far launched the roads for autonomous vehicle tests in Jiading, Lingang and Fengxian...
Read MoreBaidu showcases newest autonomous car without safety driver
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- At the Baidu World 2020, Baidu showcased the newest autonomous car it jointly developed with Hongqi, FAW Group’s...
Read MoreACEINNA launches OpenIMU ROS Driver for development of robotic navigation systems
ACEINNA, one of the world’s leading developers of inertial based guidance and navigation systems for autonomous vehicles and devices,...
Read MoreSpecial report: What’s the secret to making the perfect robotaxi?
Robotaxi developers are on a mission to upend the traditional mobility value chain, displacing the need for private vehicle ownership with...
Read MoreAI researchers devise failure detection method for safety-critical machine learning
Researchers from MIT, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania have devised a method for predicting failure rates of...
Read MoreIsraeli startup Blue White Robotics raises $10 million for autonomous vehicle platform
Israeli autonomous vehicle platform startup Blue White Robotics (BWR) has announced a $10 million funding round. The round was led by...
Read MoreSnapdeal tests last-mile delivery using Ottonomy IO’s robots
Snapdeal is testing last-mile contactless delivery using robots to reduce labour costs, even as people look at ways to avoid contagion...
Read MoreBackup driver in fatal Arizona Uber self-driving car crash charged with negligent homicide
PHOENIX — The backup Uber driver involved in the first self-driving vehicle fatality has been charged with negligent homicide for...
Read MoreJacksonville Transportation Authority receives custom autonomous solution from Beep, Local Motors and Robotic Research
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept., 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) welcomed its newest autonomous...
Read More5G expert Phil Cottom on the link between connectivity and driverless tech
As autonomous vehicles (AVs) continue to develop, so too must the technology which supports them. Now that 5G is here, we thought it was...
Read MoreWhere are the self-driving cars?
Tech giants and automakers were falling over each other to announce their self-driving vehicle plans a few years back. All of the FAANG...
Read MoreIdriverplus raises over $14.6 million for autonomous street cleaners and cars
Idriverplus, a Beijing-based supplier of driverless vehicle and robotics systems, this week raised over 100 million yuan (~$14.6 million)....
Read Morepriestmangoode reimagines mass transit with electric self-driving vehicle for dromos
priestmangoode has revealed an electric, autonomous vehicle designed for high capacity urban transport. autonomous network transit (ANT)...
Read MoreAeva and ZF to bring first FMCW LiDAR to production for autonomous driving applications
Aeva, a company building next-generation sensing for autonomous vehicles (earlier post), and ZF are partnering to bring the first...
Read MoreWhen wildfire smoke and ash fill the sky, here’s how self-driving cars can go awry
There has been a recent spate of deadly wildfires throughout the western parts of the country, especially hitting California, Oregon, and...
Read MoreWaymo’s head of lidar explains how the advanced laser tech went from science fiction to being a vital tool for self-driving cars
When Simon Verghese moved east for a postdoctoral spot atMIT, the UC Berkeley-trained physicist figured on beingback in California before...
Read MoreOklahoman nabbed for driving au naturel, which reveals eye-opening self-driving car insights
Time to share some lighter news, though with surprisingly revealing insights included. A recent news item that received rather startling...
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