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.....»»
Saccade Vision uses MEMS-based cameras to improve measuring and quality control
As humanity marches towards a future with autonomous vehicles, technology has not ceased to make breakthroughs in other industries. Saccade Vision creates a feature-based 3D scanning technology, similar to the lidar sensors used by carmakers, for the.....»»
Uber Files: Massive leak reveals how top politicians secretly helped Uber
Emmanuel Macron is among leaders who helped the ride-hailing company disrupt new markets......»»
"Hit the Kill Switch": How Uber Used Covert Tech to Thwart Government Raids
The Washington Post shares details from "a trove of more than 124,000 previously undisclosed Uber records." For example, in 2015 Uber CEO Travis Kalanick often pulled an emergency kill switch on its data — that is, "ordered the computer systems.....»»
GM"s Cruise so Far: A Crash, and 60 RoboTaxis "Disabled" After Losing Server Contact
On June 2nd California approved General Motors' Cruise robotaxi service. The Drive describes an accident that happened the next day: The autonomous car made an unprotected left turn and was hit by a Toyota Prius on June 3, though the accident wasn't.....»»
Towards autonomous prediction and synthesis of novel magnetic materials
In materials science, candidates for novel functional materials are usually explored in a trial-and-error fashion through calculations, synthetic methods, and material analysis. However, the approach is time-consuming and requires expertise. Now, res.....»»
Baidu teases progress of its AI and self-driving tech
Baidu plans to release a new update of its industrial AI-cloud "Kaiwu" and will reveal the latest progress of its autonomous driving technologies at Baidu World 2022 on July 21 in the tech giant's metaverse space Xirang......»»
An Ad Company Is Teaming Up With US Carriers To Take Over Your Lock Screen
A Google-backed ad company called Glance is looking to launch in the US, and it brings media content, news, and casual games to Android lock screens. Android Police reports: If you're not familiar with Glance, you can count yourself lucky. The lock s.....»»
Nano-rust: Smart additive for autonomous temperature control
The right temperature matters—whether in technical processes, for the quality of food and medicines, or the lifetime of electronic components and batteries. For this purpose, temperature indicators record (un)desired temperature increases that can.....»»
Robotaxi services progressing in the US and China
The reality of commuting with robotaxis has come closer. Cruise, a GM-owned self-driving car company, began charging for its driverless taxi rides in part of San Francisco. Two months earlier, autonomous vehicle (AV) technology companies Apollo and P.....»»
A weird thing just happened with a fleet of autonomous cars
A fleet of autonomous cars suddenly gathered together on a street in San Francisco earlier this week, blocking it for several hours......»»
NXM Autonomous Security platform protects space infrastructure and IoT devices from cyberattacks
NXM Labs unveiled its NXM Autonomous Security platform that prevents hackers from gaining unauthorized access to commercial, industrial, medical, or consumer internet of things (IoT) devices. Tested in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.....»»
Uber releases safety data: 998 sexual assault incidents including 141 rape reports in 2020
Even as its ridership was decimated by the pandemic in 2020, Uber recorded 141 reports of rape on its platform in the United States, the company disclosed in its safety report released Thursday......»»
Pokémon GO creator unveils new AR game for iOS: ‘NBA All-World’
Niantic, the creator of the hit augmented reality mobile game, Pokémon Go, has announced its next venture. Teaming up with the National Basketball Association, NBA All-World is currently in development and will release on iOS and Android devices......»»
Klipsch’s new magic trick: make your Dolby Atmos soundbar invisible
Klipsch is teaming up with Resonado Labs to dramatically reduce the size of Dolby Atmos soundbars and speakers......»»
Einride gets NHTSA approval to operate self-driving trucks on U.S. roads
Swedish autonomous-truck startup Einride has received regulatory approval to operate its vehicles on public U.S. roadways and will begin doing so this year, the company said Thursday......»»
Toyota cuts Uber stake in half
Toyota has cut its stake in Uber roughly in half, after the ride-hailing company divested the autonomous driving unit......»»
Adlink to focus more on edge AI, robotic and self-driving solutions
Adlink Technology will actively integrate resources with strategic partners and focus future development efforts on the fields of edge AI, edge visualization, robot and autonomous driving solutions, according to Jim Liu, chairman of the Taiwan-based.....»»
Global robotic last-mile delivery revenues to reach US$670 million in 2030, says ABI Research
Worldwide robotic last-mile delivery revenues are forecasted to grow from US$70 million in 2022 to US$670 million in 2030, according to ABI Research. Furthermore, the value of those parcels delivered by autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) could reach US$.....»»
For long-haul trucking, Hydron sees long-term potential of hydrogen
Hydron, a new startup formed by a TuSimple veteran, intends to design and manufacture trucks tailor-made for self-driving operations and hydrogen propulsion......»»
For the first time, a small rocket will launch a private spacecraft to the Moon
"It's really pushing the envelope as a commercially owned spacecraft operating at the Moon." Enlarge / A graphic representation of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment in orbit near.....»»