Alibaba launches logistics robot for last-mile deliveries to lower costs and as pandemic pushes automation
China’s biggest e-commerce player Alibaba Group Holding has unveiled an autonomous logistics robot aimed at bringing down the cost of...
Read MoreTesla driver found asleep at wheel of self-driving car doing 150km/h
Police in Canada have charged a man with speeding and dangerous driving after he was found asleep at the wheel of his self-driving car as...
Read MorePhoenix Motorcars wins grant with Houston Metro and EasyMile for development of first FMVSS compliant autonomous shuttle bus in the US
ONTARIO, Calif., Sept. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Kickstarting the autonomous bus revolution in the US, the city of Houston is set to...
Read MoreDriverless car software looks six seconds into the future
Researchers in Munich have developed software for driverless car systems that avoids accidents by computing multiple variants of a traffic...
Read MoreWorld-first Level 4 fully autonomous vehicle parking system rolled-out on Human Horizons’ HiPhi X
SHANGHAI, Sept. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Human Horizons, a leading Chinese smart mobility and autonomous driving research company,...
Read MoreBaidu 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 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 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 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 MoreBooming demand for Innodisk’s CAN bus solutions amid pandemic and autonomous vehicle trend
TAIPEI, Sept. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Innodisk’s CAN bus expansion modules are taking the world by storm. Unprecedented demand...
Read MoreNames like Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ are dangerously misleading, study shows
Does it really matter if Tesla’s advanced driving system is called “Autopilot” but it doesn’t actually take over...
Read MoreGermany wants to permit driverless cars across the country by 2022
Despite coming down hard on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving, Germany isn’t totally against the concept of self-driving cars. Sure,...
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