Voyage snags $31 million as it targets a self-driving niche: retirement communities
Voyage, a Silicon Valley self-driving vehicle startup focused on using the technology to provide transportation at retirement communities,...
Read MoreRecogni raises $25 million for power-efficient autonomous car inferencing
RK Anand — along with Ashwini Choudhary, Eye-Fi founder Eugene Feinberg, former Lilium sensor systems engineer Gilles Backhus, and Valerie...
Read MoreVoyant Photonics raises $4.3M to fit lidar on the head of a pin
Lidar is a critical method by which robots and autonomous vehicles sense the world around them, but the lasers and sensors generally take...
Read MoreElon Musk is raising the price of Tesla’s ‘full self-driving’ feature by another $1,000
The price of a Tesla vehicle equipped with “full self-driving” is about to get more expensive, the second time in the past several months...
Read MoreLidar startup luminar raises $100 million in latest funding round, is working with 12 of the world’s largest automotive companies
Lidar startup Luminar Technologies announced a new $100 million investment and unveiled its new lidar platform called “Iris”...
Read MoreFord-VW alliance expands to include autonomous and electric vehicles
In a widely anticipated move, Ford and Volkswagen announced Friday their plan to expand their seven-month-old alliance to include...
Read MoreLidar startup Luminar raises $100 million, unveils Iris sensors
Luminar is a lidar startup that in 2017 emerged from five years of stealth with $36 million in funding. The early funds came from 1517...
Read MoreMinnesota College to house autonomous tech center
(TNS) — Northland Community and Technical College in Thief River Falls, Minn., has been awarded a $7 million National Science Foundation...
Read MoreGM’s self-driving unit is close to receiving a $2.25 billion boost
It took more than a year, but GM’s self-driving company is close to receiving a giant cash infusion. Cruise Automation confirmed to...
Read MoreTier IV raises over $100 million to develop open source software for driverless cars
Tier IV, a Japan-based driverless car software maintainer and provider, this week announced the closure of a round north of $100 million...
Read MoreUPDATE 1-Car parts group Valeo announces 500 mln euros of orders for its ‘Lidar’ sensors
PARIS, July 4 (Reuters) – French car parts company Valeo has won 500 million euros ($564 million) worth of orders for its ‘Lidar’...
Read MoreNVIDIA stock jumps 5.4% on Volvo self-driving truck partnership
Shares of graphics chip specialist NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) popped 5.4% on Tuesday after the company and AB Volvo (NASDAQOTH:VOLVY) announced...
Read MoreHumanising Autonomy pulls in $5M to help self-driving cars keep an eye on pedestrians
Pretty much everything about making a self-driving car is difficult, but among the most difficult parts is making sure the vehicles know...
Read MoreDriverless sensor startup Sense Photonics raises $26 million in Series A funding
LIDAR sensors that power self-driving vehicles are becoming more powerful, accurate and reliable. Such trends stem from the development of...
Read MoreMorgan Stanley says investors are undervaluing Tesla’s self-driving future
Tesla has lost nearly a third of its value this year but Morgan Stanley believes there are some pieces of Elon Musk’s company that...
Read MoreInnoviz extends funding round to $170 million to bring its lidar tech to self-driving cars
Just a few months ago, Innoviz became one of the better capitalized lidar startups when it announced it had raised $132 million in a...
Read MoreSelf-driving delivery van startup Gatik AI comes out of stealth with Walmart partnership
Gatik AI, an autonomous vehicle startup that came out of stealth Thursday with $4.5 million in funding and Walmart as a customer, is...
Read MoreUber’s earnings report could give a clearer picture on self-driving cars
With Uber set to release its first earnings report as a publicly-traded company Thursday afternoon, expect to see some updates on the...
Read MoreWill self-driving cars make Tesla a $500 billion company?
In May 2019, the online investment blog Seeking Alpha (SA) published another article that dissed Tesla as a credible investment. Writing...
Read MoreGM Cruise autonomous vehicles valued at $19 billion
In a boost to the autonomous car industry GM’s self-driving car division, Cruise, has announced raising a $1.15 billion investment. Its...
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