With no legal requirements in New Zealand for UAV operators to hold insurance, one firm has launched the country’s most comprehensive UAV insurance solution.
In the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2017, AI takes a lead role.
Fabrizio Cugia di Sant’Orsola, founding partner of the Cugia Cuomo & Associati Law Firm in Rome, examines the potential implications of new regulations on embedded SIM cards in cars.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has claimed that the UK will become a “world leader” of driverless cars after the drafting of new laws concerning the attribution of blame in the event of a crash.
The working-age population – defined as those from 15 to 59 – fell for the first time in decades in 2012, according to official figures, and has declined ever since. It is expected to carry on falling until at least 2030. With the problem of an ageing population, China is expected to invest heavily in robots to supplement its workforce.
Over the next 15 years, almost 250,000 public sector workers could lose their jobs, according to a new report.
The Executive Order issued by President Trump’s that aims to reduce regulations on small businesses has sparked concerns in the drone industry.
London-based startup StatusToday offers monitoring services, powered by AI. Relying on a continual supply of employee metadata, such as which files they are accessing and how often they look at them, it feeds back the information to the employer.
Conservationists are using a crowdsourcing platform to raise funds to launch a drone program across three states in Australia, with the aim of catching farmers conducting widespread clearing.
A robot journalist in China has written its debut article, showing how automation can hit every sector.
A record fine has been paid by a drone company that specialises in aerial photography, for illegal flights in congested airspace.
In upstate New York, an organisation has called for a ban on self-driving cars from the state’s roads for fifty years. The Upstate Transportation Association (UTA) cites fears of job loss and damage to the local economy resulting from the switch to autonomous vehicles.
MEPs are due to vote whether to give robots legal status as “electronic persons” and if a kill switch is required.
“Watson OnStar Go will allow for Voice Payments in the vehicle with Exxon Mobile and other partners.” – Mary Barra CEO General Motors.
In a warehouse outside of Kigali, Rwanda, 15 drones sit waiting to receive a message. When the text comes in, one loads up and zips off into the sky – on a mission to save a life.
The UK government will fund a trial of drone-based deliveries in Tanzania, using the Silicon Valley start-up called Zipline. The objective of the trial is reduce the time spent sending stocks to health clinics in the country by other transportation means.
Google’s self-driving car project will soon be graduating from its experimental “X” lab status inside the company to become a standalone unit of Alphabet, possibly with a view to spinning off as an independent company.
At the end of October a group of prestigious US universities collaborated on a document trying to put together a technical roadmap for Robotics in the US. Its central purpose is to update Congress on the state of the art in robotics and to help policymakers determine where to channel resources in order to realise robotics’ great promise as a technology. We summarise some of the main findings below.
Uber has suspended its testing of self-driving cars in San Francisco after being instructed by the DMV that they required a permit, like the other 20 companies testing their technology in the area.
A report from the National Science and Technology Council looks at the current state of AI in the US and makes a series of recommendations for federal agencies.
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