Collaborate Disseminate
In what is being described as a world-first, a 222-meter (728-ft) vehicle-carrying ferry has autonomously navigated a 240-km (149-mile) stretch of Japan’s Iyonda Sea. The vessel even performed the docking procedures on its own.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading Large vehicle-carrying ferry makes first-ever autonomous run in Japan
We first became aware of the little delivery bot back in 2018, after Nuro got a healthy Series A funding bump to develop the autonomous pod. The second prototype was unveiled the following year and the company has been trundling towards deployment ever… Continue reading Nuro’s 3rd-gen autonomous delivery pod will have external pedestrian airbags
Love the idea or hate it – and apparently plenty of us do hate it – driverless cars are on the way. While it will still be some time before we reach full recline-and-relax level 6 autonomy, Tesla and others are out there gathering the mountains of real… Continue reading Here’s what you won’t be driving in 2030
While Chevrolet is busying itself readying the near future, Cadillac is diving deeper into the crystal ball, showing the all-new InnerSpace digital concept car at CES 2022. The ultra-low, sleek coupe has looks to kill, but it’s really an interior conce… Continue reading Cadillac shows sporty coupes have a gorgeous future in autonomous age
While Chevrolet is busying itself readying the near future, Cadillac is diving deeper into the crystal ball, showing the all-new InnerSpace digital concept car at CES 2022. The ultra-low, sleek coupe has looks to kill, but it’s really an interior conce… Continue reading Cadillac shows sporty coupes have a gorgeous future in autonomous age
What once seemed more like the punchline of a joke or answer to a riddle is moving closer to reality. Sony stunned CES crowds two years ago when it showed the Vision-S concept car amongst its usual sea of high-def TVs and high-res audio equipment, and … Continue reading Sony pushes toward the EV market with SUV prototype and mobility brand
Earlier in the year, autonomous transport company TuSimple sent one of its trucks on a 900-mile journey from Arizona to Texas, though human drivers took the wheel for the first and last parts. Now a semi-truck has completed an 80-mile trip on public ro… Continue reading TuSimple takes humans out of the equation for fully autonomous road trip
Alphabet subsidiary Waymo opened up its fully driverless taxi service to the public in Phoenix, Arizona, in October last year, making it the first commercial service in the world to operate without safety backup drivers at the wheel. Now the company ha… Continue reading Waymo’s new all-electric robotaxi ditches the steering wheel completely
Members of a student team from the Technology University of Eindhoven are about to embark on a fact-finding mission to the South Pole that will inform the creation of an autonomous solar-powered Antarctica research rover.Continue ReadingCategory: Envir… Continue reading Student team building autonomous solar-powered rover for Antarctic research
Around this time last year, robotics startup Nuro was granted a deployment permit in California for its autonomous delivery vehicle. Now the company has partnered with convenience store chain 7-Eleven for the first autonomous commercial delivery servic… Continue reading Nuro and 7-Eleven launch autonomous delivery service in California