The state of New York has approved the budgeting of a pilot program to permit the testing of driverless vehicles, where before such cars had been expressly banned in law.
Artificial intelligence is changing the world and doing it at breakneck speed. The promise is that intelligent machines will be able to do every task better and more cheaply than humans. Rightly or wrongly, one industry after another is falling under its spell, even though few have benefited significantly so far.
Andrej Karpathy has been made director of AI and Autopilot at Tesla, and will report directly to Elon Musk, signalling Tesla’s intention to innovate in the world of self-driving cars.
Canadian UAV manufacturer, Aeromao, has conducted a Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLoS) operation, flying at a distance of 30km away from its operators.
Kuka, which is Germany’s largest maker of industrial robots, and one of the largest in the world, is planning to move into a new market: personal assistant robots. It intends to do this in partnership with Midea, the Chinese robotics firm that acquired it last year for €4.5bn.
On 13th June, United States senators Bill Nelson, Gary Peters, and John Thune announced the six principles that they intend to use as a foundation when drafting new legislation. This announcement arrives ahead of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing.
Texas and Connecticut have passed bills in the state senate that will allow testing of self-driving cars to take place on their roads.
Taking autonomous flight to a new level, DARPA has developed a robotic co-pilot capable of flying and landing a Boeing 737 aircraft. With a vision for increased safety of flights through reducing the workload for the human crew, the ALIAS program showcases how robotics can integrate and assist humans in the workplace.
Apple has acquired Lattice Data for about $200 million, resulting in 20 of their engineers joining the Apple Team. Lattice Data uses AI to turn unstructured data into usable data.
Boeing is researching how best multiple, unmanned aircraft systems can work together safely.
Waymo, Google’s driverless car company, has created a free “early rider” programme in Phoenix, Arizona, offering free rides to families and commuters in the city.
An extract from a paper by Messrs Andres F. Salazar-Gomez, Joseph DelPreto, Stephanie Gil, Frank H. Guenther, and Daniela Rus from the MIT Distributed Robotics Lab in the US.
Consumers are at the heart of the extended automotive value chain, which generates trillions of dollars for auto manufacturers, suppliers, dealers, financial institutions, oil companies and a host of other organizations. A new report from the Deloitte Global Automation Group looks at the trends.
Internet giant Baidu, known as China’s Google, has announced that it will make its autonomous driving technology open source, in contrast to the secrecy that other firms such as Waymo and Tesla operate in.
A new form of transportation is coming to the streets of Greenwich in London, the first extended trial of a driverless shuttle bus.
The American microchip producer is to buy Mobileye, an Israeli maker of self-driving car technology, for $15.3 billion, a record deal in the driverless car sector.
Moley has designed the world's first robotic kitchen. Due for consumer release in 2018, how could a mechanical chef compete with top of the line humans?
In the face of declining bee populations and possible extinction, mini drones coated in a sticky gel could be employed to fulfil their pollination duties.
Starship Technologies are tackling the last mile logistics challenge.
The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco federal court last Thursday by Waymo, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc (the parent company of Google), and is devoted to the development of autonomous vehicle technology, being responsible for the iconic bubble shaped cars out on the road.