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In this interview from the show floor, VSI Labs president Phil Magney shows Chuck Martin, editorial director at Informa Tech his team's R&D car – complete with LiDAR, antennas, and sensor suites.

DesignCon 2021: Autonomous vehicles on the horizon

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9/6/2021

In this interview from the DesignCon 2021 show floor, Chuck Martin, editorial director at Informa Tech, and AEye product management director Indu Vijayan discuss autonomous vehicle developments.

Nippon Yusen plans to send autonomous cargo ship on 236-mile voyage through busy shipping lanes

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9/6/2021

Japanese consortium hopes for 50% of cargo ships to be autonomous by 2040

Hyundai launches academic partnership to research feasibility of 3D printing automotive components

News
9/6/2021

Will also investigate machine learning for industrial applications – like ensuring battery quality for electric vehicles

DesignCon 2021: COVID not entirely to blame for putting the brakes on the auto industry

Video
9/2/2021

In this interview from the DesignCon 2021 show floor, Chuck Martin, editorial director at Informa Tech, and Sang Oh, senior research analyst from Omdia, look at how the global chip shortage put the brakes on the automobile industry.

Volvo splashes cash in autonomous vehicle startup’s $32m Series B round

News
9/2/2021

Foretellix also secured investment from Columbus-based insurance company Nationwide

Tesla AI day: Real chips, unreal robots

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8/20/2021

Spandex and silicon whipped out by tech's loudest billionaire

Apple’s LiDAR patents suggest its autonomous vehicle project may still be alive

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8/19/2021

Five-year-old filings outline method of predicting LiDAR data using machine learning

US federal government opens probe into Tesla Autopilot crashes

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8/17/2021

Self-crashing technology

Colorado set to host the largest electric autonomous vehicle fleet in the US

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8/13/2021

Six-seater ‘Mines Rovers’ are ADA accessible and 100 percent electric

Hyundai’s Motional to expand robotaxi services across the West Coast

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8/11/2021

The new fleet in Santa Monica will be made up of Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 electric vehicles

Battery-powered autonomous cargo trains to begin testing in Finland

News
8/9/2021

The trains will be fueled by two 100kW engines capable of hauling up to 300 tons

How Verizon’s giant 5G truck looks to augment disaster response

Analysis
8/4/2021

Cory Davis, Verizon’s response and public safety director, says there’s ‘a lot more to come’ from THOR

Europe's first commercial robotaxi service is a yellow ferry that takes you to a Dutch golf course

News
8/2/2021

The solar and battery-powered ships can run for six hours at up to four knots

UK’s Turing Institute secures funding to research AI for air traffic control, safer automated banking

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7/26/2021

British researchers to create a probabilistic digital twin of UK airspace

Lyft to offer semi-autonomous rides by the end of 2021

News
7/23/2021

Starting with Miami and Austin

Mobileye’s autonomous vehicles take to the mean streets of New York

News
7/22/2021

With a person in the driver’s seat, though seldom placing their hands on the steering wheel

Smart Eye and OmniVision unveil full interior sensing system for auto-makers

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7/21/2021

The OV2312 RGB-IR 2.1-megapixel image sensor works day or night, can tell if you’re using your phone while driving

Tesla to charge $199 per month for Level 2 autonomy

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7/19/2021

‘Full Self-Driving’ subscription service does not make for a self-driving car

Hyundai’s Shucke to test autonomous shuttles on the streets of Sejong, South Korea

News
7/16/2021

Internal cameras can recognize the passenger and determine whether they sit in a designated seat

China’s Ecarx takes 15% stake in Volvo’s self-driving subsidiary

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7/15/2021

Zenseact CEO promises to bring “AI-defined safety” to Chinese consumers

T-Mobile and Halo to launch commercial driverless car service in Las Vegas

News
7/12/2021

Remote operators ‘drive’ LiDAR-less cars to users over a 5G network, via a remote steering setup

Grubhub partners with Russia's Yandex for robotic food deliveries at US colleges

News
7/9/2021

Aiming to expand to 250 locations

AutoX unveils fifth generation self-driving system for its RoboTaxi fleet

News
7/7/2021

With six high-resolution LiDAR sensors, 28 cameras, and a 4D radar

Lloyd’s List and SAS collaborate on AI system that interprets ship movements

News
7/7/2021

The maritime information platform has come a long way since its journal days in 1734

Panasonic sells its Tesla shares for $3.6bn

News
6/30/2021

Cashing in will not affect the relationship or Nevada battery factory, Panasonic claims

Industrial AI Summit: Hitachi is using AI and IoT to decarbonize industrial vehicle fleets

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6/29/2021

Decarbonizing bus fleets alone would save 101m tons of CO2 – the equivalent of running 21,000 wind turbines for a year

Dashcams for good: AI and car cameras are helping fix potholes

News
6/25/2021

Pilot data collection projects are running in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Dallas

Mayflower, the autonomous ship, forced to return to port due to mechanical issue

News
6/21/2021

Should the MAS eventually make it, it'll be the largest autonomous vessel to cross the world's second-largest ocean

Ford and Hermes study reactions to self-driving cars – by hiding the driver

News
6/21/2021

The unusual 'self-driving service simulation' trial is set to take place in Oxford, the UK

AI-powered insurance specialist Tractable secures $60m in Series D funding

News
6/18/2021

Sets sights on home insurance as well as buying and selling used cars

Alphabet's self-driving car company Waymo raises another $2.5 billion

News
6/17/2021

Despite a recent flood of executive departures

FedEx partners with Nuro for autonomous deliveries

News
6/16/2021

Trialing compact autonomous delivery vehicles in Houston

Cruise launches San Francisco's first fully autonomous taxi service

News
6/7/2021

Especially tempting, since the company cannot charge for rides

Why it’s time the shipping industry fully embraces AI

Partner Perspectives
6/7/2021

The fallout of the Ever Given blockage in the Suez Canal and the backlog of deliveries highlighting the need to rapidly change the approach towards navigation and collision avoidance

Oxbotica and Transport Research Laboratory publish code of practice for off-road autonomous vehicles

News
6/2/2021

The document outlines how to plan for, and prevent, potential off-road issues

Germany poised to legalize autonomous driving on public roads

News
5/25/2021

With no human at the wheel

Toyota recruits Mobileye and ZF to develop safety tech for autonomous vehicles

News
5/21/2021

Mobileye’s EyeQ4 SoC and ZF’s Gen21 mid-range radar to be deployed in Toyota cars and trucks within five years

Waymo car filmed as it gets confused by cones, escapes its own support team

News
5/19/2021

Contact center team appear unable to control the rogue AI system in a viral video

Las Vegas is getting a smart road system for the city's medical district

News
5/13/2021

Including autonomous passenger shuttles

Volkswagen promises hands-free vans on the road by 2025

News
5/13/2021

Prototypes of Level 4 autonomous vehicles are already running on a test track in Munich

Pony.ai partners with Luminar as it plans to expand robotaxi fleet

News
5/13/2021

The collaboration will see the Iris sensor suite integrated into Pony.ai’s upcoming vehicle fleet

Alibaba-backed AutoX celebrates 100 days of robotaxi service in Shenzhen

News
5/10/2021

Upgrades to sensor hardware and imaging radars to follow

Oxbotica and Navtech unveil all-weather radar for off-road autonomy

News
5/10/2021

Sensor can work in the rain, fog, snow, and complete darkness at speeds up to 75mph

AI chipmaker Kneron acquires Vatics, gets more funding

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5/7/2021

Former Vatics executives to lead Kneron's surveillance and security camera division

Driverless truck startup Plus considers SPAC merger with Hennessy, valued at over $3bn

News
5/5/2021

The California-based business has close ties to China

Baidu launches Beijing’s first robotaxi service

News
5/4/2021

Chinese tech giant plans to expand the service to 30 more cities in the next three years

French autonomous vehicle maker EasyMile secures $64 million in funding

News
4/30/2021

After deploying its first driverless cars in Korea, the company is looking to expand even further

UK Government set to allow more vehicle autonomy, but research groups urge caution

News
4/28/2021

Automated Lane Keeping Systems (ALKS) to be permitted in slow-moving traffic

Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving unit for $550m

News
4/28/2021

First Uber bails on autonomous cars, now Lyft does the same

General Motors licenses AI software developed at Oak Ridge

News
4/27/2021

MENNDL is “an evolutionary algorithm” that leverages a large number of compute nodes

Potential US legislation could greenlight safety standard exemptions for autonomous vehicles

News
4/27/2021

Increasing from 2,500 per manufacturer to 15,000 – and then 80,000 in three years

Toyota Industries combines autonomous vehicle tech under new T-Hive brand

News
4/22/2021

Based in Holland and dedicated to control systems for automated forklifts and AMRs

France’s largest auto insurer is using AI to assess vehicle damage

News
4/22/2021

With a system from Tractable AI that has processed over $1 billion in auto claims to date

Volvo and China’s DiDi team up on driverless robotaxis

News
4/20/2021

The new XC90s will drive themselves across Shanghai – but it’s not clear when

Honda partners with AutoX to test autonomous vehicles in China

News
4/20/2021

Hoping that successful tests could lead to deployments at scale

Walmart is the latest household name to invest in autonomous vehicle developer Cruise

News
4/19/2021

Retailer says investment backs its sustainability and clean energy plan

Irish researchers equip e-scooters with computer vision to make them safer

News
4/16/2021

E-scooters are currently ‘unlawful’ road vehicles in Ireland – the project aspires to change this

Ocado invests $14 million in autonomous driving specialist Oxbotica

News
4/16/2021

UK’s most valuable food retailer ‘excited’ to expand into autonomous deliveries

Volvo and Nvidia extend collaboration on driverless tech

News
4/15/2021

The upcoming XC90 SUV will be powered by DRIVE Orin hardware

AI Business Podcast 24: The killer feature is killing

Podcasts
4/12/2021

Augmented reality is all grown up – plus What’s The News With Wodecki

Autonomous vehicle mapping insufficient for Australia’s roads, researcher warns

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4/9/2021

QUT Center for Robotics director calls for increased collaboration on autonomous mapping

Toyota Land Cruisers equipped with AI-powered X-ray to detect Tuberculosis

News
4/8/2021

Yes, that headline is correct

Waymo CEO John Krafcik steps down, to be replaced by two co-CEOs

News
4/7/2021

One CEO will focus on tech, the other will deal with regulators

XPeng P7 fleet completes record 3,000km self-driving marathon across China

News
4/5/2021

A marketing exercise on a scale not seen before

Vietnam joins the fray with its first Level 4 autonomous vehicle

News
3/30/2021

Back in ‘Nam, the cars drive themselves

Volkswagen boosts AI research with new Detroit unit

News
3/29/2021

Looking to transform manufacturing, rather than refine self-driving technology

Moment AI looks to develop in-car system focused on driver health

News
3/17/2021

The prototype hopes to prevent accidents caused by events like seizures, strokes, and sudden cardiac arrest

Cruise acquires rival autonomous vehicle specialist Voyage

News
3/16/2021

The two nautical-themed self-driving businesses team up

Optibus receives $107 million to optimize mass transit

News
3/15/2021

Algorithmic decisions could shorten billions of journey times

Honda Legend is the world’s first Level 3 certified autonomous car

News
3/5/2021

Sales will be limited, with only 100 Legends being made available for lease at a price in the region of 11 million yen (around $102,000)

Robotic harvest companion ‘Carry’ wants to help farmers boost efficiency

News
2/23/2021

Future Acres claims the machine pays for itself in just 80 days

EU security agencies warn AI in autonomous vehicles highly vulnerable to a wide range of attacks

News
2/23/2021

Self-driving vehicles could be Waymo trouble than they’re worth

AI and Linux to fly on Mars, as robot helicopter emerges from Perseverance

News
2/22/2021

Ingenuity will be man’s first object to fly on Mars

LIDAR specialist AEye to go public via SPAC, valuing it at $2bn

News
2/19/2021

Joining a number of LIDAR businesses that have used SPACs instead of IPOs

Bearing.ai comes out of stealth to optimize the shipping industry

News
2/18/2021

Lands large customers at sea

VW Group and Microsoft join forces to build autonomous cars

News
2/15/2021

As the car maker transforms into a “digital mobility provider”

AI Business Podcast 19: The battle for a clean Internet

Podcasts
2/15/2021

“There’s no customer service [number] for saying, hey, I’m not a terrorist.”

Hyundai’s autonomous TIGER concept sets sights on the moon

News
2/12/2021

The robo-vehicle combines legs and wheels

Dendra Systems’ ‘sky tractors’ rely on computer vision to restore degraded land

News
2/10/2021

Aerial seeding drones can plant up to 300,000 trees a day

BP celebrates successful oil refinery self-driving trial

News
2/9/2021

Next, it plans for a permanent robo-vehicle deployment

Autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai raises another $100 million

News
2/9/2021

Few autonomous vehicle companies can rival Pony.ai’s funding to date

Ford signs up Google as cloud and AI partner

News
2/4/2021

“We plan to disrupt,” says VP for strategy and partnerships

Autonomous drone and air taxi port ‘Air One’ set to open in the UK

News
2/1/2021

Its creators hope to eventually operate hundreds of similar sites

Hartford taps Tractable’s computer vision to speed up auto claims

News
1/28/2021

The AI system is claimed to be year, make, and model-agnostic

Hyundai introduces robot to Korean showrooms

News
1/28/2021

DAL-e has been designed with customer service in mind, and tweaked to serve in the pandemic

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