Waymo Is Teaming Up With Uber On Autonomous Trucking
Waymo and Uber, former legal foes and bitter rivals in the autonomous vehicle space, are teaming up to speed up the adoption of driverless trucks. The Verge reports: Waymo is integrating Uber Freight, the ride-hail company's truck brokerage, into the.....»»
Magna testing self-driving delivery bot on Michigan roads
Magna International said Wednesday it is testing a last-mile autonomous delivery robot for use on public roads as the supplier giant looks to develop new businesses in the mobility space......»»
Uber and its subsidiary pay New Jersey $100 million in back taxes
Uber and one of its subsidiaries paid $100 million to New Jersey after an audit by the state's Department of Labor and Workforce Development determined the ride-share company improperly classified hundreds of thousands of drivers as independent contr.....»»
Cruise’s robot taxis head to Arizona and Texas
General Motors-owned Cruise is taking its autonomous cars to Texas and Arizona before the end of this year to test a robot taxi service......»»
Argo AI works to spread its autonomous driving wings
Argo AI will provide a comprehensive set of self-driving technologies to companies for ride-hailing and delivery services......»»
Marvel World of Heroes is the next AR game from Pokémon Go studio
Niantic and Marvel are teaming up to bring a new Marvel augmented reality game to mobile devices......»»
Uber exec accused of disguising data-breach extortion as “bug bounty”
Security experts: Uber exec "did nothing wrong" by disguising data breach. Enlarge (credit: JOSH EDELSON / Contributor | AFP) After the Federal Trade Commission began investigating a massive Uber data breach in 2016, the tech.....»»
Xiaomi to reportedly adopt Hesai LiDAR for first autonomous EV
China-based smartphone vendor Xiaomi has stepped into developing autonomous electric vehicles (EVs), and will reportedly adopt LiDARs developed by China-based Hesai Technology for its first autonomous EV, according to industry sources......»»
Magna hired to make autonomous delivery robots
The Canadian auto supplier built an initial order of 50 Cartken Model C robots at its plant in suburban Detroit and is increasing capacity......»»
Autonomous driving vehicle development accelerating
Vehicles equipped with various levels of autonomous driving technologies are increasing in number. A February 2022 survey by MarketsandMarkets showed that the autonomous vehicles market will expand by a CAGR of 13.3% to reach 62.4 million units in 20.....»»
Cutting-edge Analysis of EDGE Compute Nodes & 5G
NEDGE systems enable 5G/6G network providers to move cloud access, data processing, and storage closer to the consumer. This reduces the signal latency to levels that allow technologies such as autonomous vehicle control, AR/VR applications, eVTOL,.....»»
GM"s Cruise recalls, revises self-driving software after crash
Cruise said in a rare circumstance, the software caused the autonomous vehicle to hard brake while performing an unprotected left turn that it deemed necessary to avoid a severe front-end collision......»»
Apple quits board of Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi
Six years after Apple invested $1 billion in China's Uber-like Didi Global company, its representative has quietly left the board.Didi Global bought out Uber China in July 2019 for $1 billion, and later that year, Apple invested the same amount in th.....»»
Space station research contributes to navigation systems for moon voyages
On its mission to the Moon, NASA's Orion spacecraft is designed to use NASA's Near Space Network and Deep Space Network to navigate. But if the craft loses communication with the ground or the Networks, crews can use a backup autonomous navigation sy.....»»
Uber now lets users text with a safety agent to monitor rides
Uber is giving riders the ability to connect with a safety agent while taking a nerve-wracking trip, making it the latest feature the company has added in recent years to address safety concerns......»»
FARobot debuts Swarm Autonomy solution
FARobot, an AMR (autonomous mobile robot) developer established by Foxconn Electronics and industrial computing device maker Adlink Technology on a joint venture basis, debuts Swarm Autonomy solution at 2022 Automation Taipei exhibition during August.....»»
CiLES showcases autonomous mobile forklifts/carriers
Coretronic Intelligent Logistics Solution (CiLS) is showcasing autonomous mobile forklifts and autonomous mobile carriers at 2022 Taipei Logistics & IoT Exhibition during August 24-27, according to the company......»»
Nexar utilizes crowdsourced vision data to foster autonomous driving
Data is the foundation of autonomous driving. Nexar, an AI computer vision company, analyzes street information through a network supported by its dash cams. Integrating real-time data with human driving behaviors, the Israel-based company aims for a.....»»
Former Apple car engineer pleads guilty to trade secret theft
U.S. prosecutors allege that Xiaolang Zhang downloaded confidential plans for Apple's self-driving vehicle to Chinese autonomous car startup Xpeng......»»
Asia Optical supplies lens modules used in 3D LiDARs
Asia Optical has supplied optical lens modules used in 3D LiDARs for Europe-based first-tier vendors of automotive LiDARs used in Level 4 autonomous driving, according to the company......»»
Musk says Tesla raising "Full Self-Driving" price to $15,000
Tesla’s use of the name 'Full Self-Driving,' or FSD, has been criticized because the features require active supervision and don’t make its vehicles autonomous......»»