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Autonomous watercraft will be used to search the sea for Amelia Earhart's airplane

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Famed American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937, while attempting to fly around the world in a Lockheed Model 10E Electra. Now, a high-tech unmanned boat has been enlisted to help search for that plane, near an island where Earhart may have crash-landed.

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Humble beginnings for Roborace: The world's first autonomous car race is run and done

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Overtakes in Robo-racing are done with consent

A little piece of history has gone down at the Monteblanco racetrack in Spain, with the world’s first fully autonomous car race completed last week. Two teams pitted code and cars against one another, with Team Arrival beating out the Technical University of Munich to take the first ever Roborace win.

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BAE's autonomous patrol boat packs 12.7-mm heat and offers 10-day mission range

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BAE Systems has completed another series of tests on its Pacific 950 autonomous patrol boat

Targeted at anti-piracy, border control, intelligence gathering and maritime security missions, the Pacific 950 is an autonomous boat that can operate alone for up to 10 days, or cover 300 nautical miles (556 km) at pursuit speed. Its built-in stabilized 12.7-mm weapons system, however, is human-operated.

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Peloton's Automated Follow feature would allow a person to drive two trucks at once

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Peloton calls its newly announced technology Automated Following

Trucking is an industry that could be shaped significantly by autonomous vehicle tech in the coming years, and enabling heavy haulers to roll along in tight formations known as platoons could be a key part of this future. Startup Peloton has an interesting new take on this concept, describing an automated following system that would effectively allow a human to drive two trucks at once.

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Protean's all-in-one drive, suspension and steering modules spin 360 degrees

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Autonomous pods could be coming at you – sideways – courtesy of the Protean360+ corner module

Autonomous mobility pods of the future could gain themselves exceptional tight-space maneuvering capabilities if Protean’s 360-degree integrated wheel systems come to fruition. Each one packs steering, suspension, motors and pneumatic ride-height adjustment into a single unit.

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REE re-invents the wheel, and plans a complete disruption of the auto industry

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A Tel Aviv-based company is making a push to revolutionize the architecture of future automobiles. REE has developed a massively modular platform that squeezes the entire motor, transmission, steering, suspension, brakes and more into the whe… Continue reading REE re-invents the wheel, and plans a complete disruption of the auto industry→

Domino's plans self-driving pizza deliveries for Houston

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Nuro's self-driving pod called R2 is built to roam the streets with its cargo holds loaded ...

In its ongoing bid to automate its pizza operations in every which way possible, Domino’s has announced a new partnership with robotics startup Nuro. The agreement will see Nuro’s self-driving pods bring some customers in Houston their pizzas without the aid of a delivery person, and is another example of how the pizza giant is exploring the ways its business can be streamlined through autonomous technologies.

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Volvo Trucks' cabin-less self-driving hauler takes on its first job

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Volvo Trucks' Vera is set to go to work moving containers around a logistics center in ...

What would trucks look like if they didn’t need to accommodate a human driver? Volvo Trucks’ Vera vehicle is an exploration of this idea, doing away with the cabin entirely so it can more efficiently tow goods around ports and factories. The freewheeling four-wheeler has just been assigned its first task, and will soon go to work delivering containers to a port terminal in Sweden.

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