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.....»»
Laparoscopic Robot Performs First Autonomous Surgery
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University developed and now successfully tested the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR), a self-guiding surgical robot that can perform challenging laparoscopic procedures in gastrointestinal surgery, including intestin.....»»
How a big blue van from 1986 paved the way for self-driving cars
Despite being bigger than a moving truck and sporting less computing power than a first-gen Apple watch, the Navlab-1 was a surprisingly capable autonomous car.....»»
Autonomous formation of primitive cells observed on ancient Earth surfaces and on a specimen from Mars
New research by the University of Oslo provides experimental evidence that populations of ancient primitive cells could have autonomously assembled on minerals under early Earth conditions, and on the ancient crust of Mars......»»
Cruise opens driverless taxi service to SF riders — but with limitations
It's a big day for Cruise, the General Motors-backed autonomous vehicle company: Its driverless cars are open to the public in San Francisco.Though there are plenty of limitations. The first public rides in the modified Chevy Bolt EV Cruise vehicles.....»»
Watch this Toyota car drift around obstacles all by itself
When we talk about autonomous driving today, we typically mean cars that can drive by themselves on the highway, recognize some of the dangers on the road, and perhaps do a few advanced tasks such as autonomously change lanes or park themselves. But.....»»
Watch folks react to their first ride in GM Cruise’s driverless car
Watch San Francisco residents react to their first ride in a Cruise autonomous car that has no one sitting in the driver's seat......»»
Waymo Sues State DMV To Keep Robotaxi Safety Details Secret
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Los Angeles Times: Waymo, the driverless car company operating an autonomous taxi fleet in San Francisco, is suing the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The immediate issue: whether the company, own.....»»
The Battle for Uber begins in the trailer for Super Pumped
The true life story of the rise and fall of Travis Kalanick is chronicled in Showtime's Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber......»»
Meta poaches engineering manager from Apple Car project
Apple’s former Lead Engineering Program Manager for Autonomous Systems has left the company for a job at Meta......»»
AI Weekly: Watson Health and semi-autonomous driving failures show the dangers of overpromising AI
AI technologies can fall short of their promise, as news from this week about Watson Health and semi-autonomous driving systems showed. AI technologies can fall short of their promise, as news from this week about Watson Health and semi-autonomou.....»»
Annihilation Director Is Making a Movie About a Near Future American Civil War Starring Kirsten Dunst
Annihilation writer and director Alex Garland is teaming up with A24 to make Civil War, a film about a near future American civil war that stars The Power of Dog and Spider-Man's Kirsten Dunst.Annihilation writer and director Alex Garland is teaming.....»»
Autonomous battery-powered rail cars could steal shipments from truckers
Advances in batteries, autonomy could extend the reach of freight railroads. Enlarge / Two Parallel Systems rail vehicles transport a container down a test track in Southern California. (credit: Parallel Systems) For the last.....»»
Enhanced and scalable LiDAR at CES 2022
LiDAR providers have devoted intensive efforts to making the technology essential, especially for autonomous driving (AD). At CES 2022, they introduced LiDAR products enabling better images and a more extended detection range. In addition, more annou.....»»
This LG robot could soon be serving your restaurant meal
LG is bringing its semi-autonomous CLOi ServeBot to the U.S. The robot can carry loads of up 66 pounds and operate for 11 hours while assisting human workers......»»
Global IDMs placing emphasis on ADAS IC
Global IDMs have been actively exploring advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) ICs despite limited business opportunities in the autonomous driving market currently due to government regulations and long development time of related products......»»
Nuro’s new autonomous delivery pod has an external airbag
The third version of Nuro's autonomous delivery pod offers more space for goods and an external airbag for improved safety......»»
You can no longer call an Uber with your Apple Watch
Uber is still available on the smartwatch, but you can't do anything with it. Enlarge / Apple Watch Series 7. (credit: Apple) Uber has gone the way of Lyft, canceling support for its app on Apple Watches. As spotted by MacRum.....»»
Deadly extreme weather year for US as carbon emissions soar
The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021, while the nation's greenhouse gas emissions last year jumped 6% because of surges in coal and long-haul trucking, putt.....»»
Amazon Joins Lockheed Martin and Cisco to Send Alexa to Space, Offers NASA Tours for SchoolKids
"Alexa, when are we arriving at the moon?" quips GeekWire. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: This week brought news that Amazon is teaming up with Lockheed Martin and Cisco to put its Alexa voice assistant on NASA's Orion spacecraft for the.....»»
CES is hosting a high-speed autonomous car race today. Watch it here
CES is hosting an autonomous car race this year -- and you can watch it live! Here's how to watch the second round of the Indy Autonomous Challenge.....»»