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While we hear a great deal about the huge patches of garbage that are floating on the world’s oceans, there’s even more trash lying on the seabed. The European Union-funded SeaClear project aims to gather much of it up, using autonomous robots.Continue… Continue reading SeaClear project aims to robo-garbage-pick the ocean floor
While bicycle-sharing systems certainly are proving to be popular, they still have a few problems, such as the limited availability of bikes. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab are working on a solution, in the form of the MIT Autonomous Bicycle.Continue… Continue reading MIT’s shared ebike transforms into a self-driving trike
Back in April, autonomous vehicle tech firm AutoX teamed up with Alibaba’s Amap mobility platform to make robo-taxis available to Shanghai ride-hailers. But only a limited group of users could access the pilot program. Now AutoX and Amap have opened th… Continue reading AutoX opens Shanghai RoboTaxi service to the public
Through its years-long partnership with Waymo, Fiat Chrysler (FCA) has taken an active role in the development of self-driving technology, and is now expanding the scope of its efforts to include vehicles of a slightly larger footprint. The two compani… Continue reading Waymo and Fiat Chrysler begin work on autonomous Ram ProMaster vans
Although offshore structures such as wind turbines do need to be protected, crews of guard boats can get bored just waiting around to chase off intruders – plus, of course, they have to be paid a salary. It was with this in mind that the Autonomous Gua… Continue reading Autonomous Guard Vessel may someday protect offshore facilities
So far as self-driving startups go, Waymo is farther along than most with tens of millions of miles covered by its test vehicles and number of partnerships in place with household names like Walmart and Jaguar. It can now add Volvo to that list, with t… Continue reading Volvo teams with Waymo to develop autonomous electric vehicles
Russia has a long history of experimenting with wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicles, most notably the huge ekranoplans dating back to the 1960s. Now, Russian scientists are developing a smaller unmanned WIG, that’s solar-powered.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Unmanned solar wing-in-ground-effect vehicle being developed in Russia
After 18 months of planning, the Future Automated Bus Urban Level Operation System (FABULOS) project is about to roll into five European cities to field test autonomous last-mile shuttles in real-world conditions.Continue ReadingCategory: Urban Transpo… Continue reading R&D project kicks off autonomous shuttle pilots in Europe
Last year, AI development company Cognitive Technologies installed its self-driving systems into combine harvesters operated by Russia’s largest agro holding company. The pilot proved successful, and the technology will now be rolled out to 242 combine… Continue reading Rusagro employs autonomous combine fleet for bumper Russian harvest
For a few years now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has been pursuing a self-driving future through its Pacifica Hybrid minivans, making deals with Google and then its spin-off autonomous car venture Waymo. The automaker has now gained another ally in… Continue reading Fiat Chrysler provides bespoke minivan for self-driving startup Voyage