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At the online-only CES 2021 earlier this month, German mobility startup Sono Motors revealed a collaboration with EasyMile to install its solar technology on driverless shuttles. Now we have a few more details.Continue ReadingCategory: Urban Transport,… Continue reading Sono Motors and EasyMile embed solar cells in driverless shuttle
Microsoft is looking to leverage its prowess in cloud computing to help usher in the era of autonomous vehicles, with the company announcing a partnership with Cruise, the self-driving arm of General Motors. Described as long-term, the partnership aims… Continue reading Microsoft teams up with Cruise on development of self-driving cars
Microsoft is looking to leverage its prowess in cloud computing to help usher in the era of autonomous vehicles, with the company announcing a partnership with Cruise, the self-driving arm of General Motors. Described as long-term, the partnership aims… Continue reading Microsoft teams up with Cruise on development of self-driving cars
Almost three years after revealing its autonomous delivery vehicle, robotics startup Nuro has been given the green light for commercial operations in California. Initially, service needs will be met by fully autonomous Prius vehicles, but the R2 delive… Continue reading Nuro gets permit to start commercial autonomous deliveries in California
Walmart is pressing ahead with its efforts to automate certain parts of its logistics operations, today announcing plans to conduct tests of completely driverless trucks along a leg of its supply chain in Arkansas. The move follows trials using the sam… Continue reading Walmart removes the safety driver from autonomous trucking tests
Joining a slew of electric transport pods built for autonomous travel in congested areas, such as the Nuro, the LUTZ Pathfinder and Toyota’s e-Palette people mover, is a new robotaxi from Amazon subsidiary Zoox. The fully electric vehicle is designed t… Continue reading Amazon’s Zoox reveals a bi-directional autonomous transport pod
While ocean-based fish farms do help take pressure off of wild stocks, they have eco-unfriendly drawbacks of their own. A new underwater robot is being designed to address that situation, by autonomously inspecting the fish and their pens.Continue Read… Continue reading Underwater robot designed to keep tabs on fish farms
Although AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) excel at gathering marine data without human intervention, they’re still limited by battery life. Texas startup Terradepth has set out to address that problem, with a novel tag-team system.Continue Reading… Continue reading Place-trading AUVs designed for longer oceanographic missions
When it comes to targets for autonomous machinery, those carrying out repetitive tasks on farmland are ripe for the picking. The newly introduced self-operating Monarch Tractor is designed to show how it’s done, being billed as the world’s smartest tra… Continue reading Electric, autonomous Monarch Tractor is billed as the world’s smartest
Just last week, AutoX announced the roll out a fleet of autonomous RoboTaxis in downtown Shenzhen, representing the first time such vehicles have been deployed in China without safety drivers or remote operators.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, Tr… Continue reading Baidu Apollo gets green light for fully driverless road tests in Beijing