Hi Tech & Innovation
Japan's Honda and US auto titan General Motors announced on Thursday that they planned to launch a driverless taxi service in Tokyo in 2026, helping tackle labor shortages in an aging society.
Oct 19, 2023
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Robotics
The ocean has always been a force to be reckoned with when it comes to understanding and traversing its seemingly limitless blue waters. Past innovations such as deep-sea submersibles and ocean-observing satellites have helped ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Automotive
A self-driving car operated by US company Cruise ran over a woman after she was first knocked in front of it by a hit-and-run driver in San Francisco late Monday, video showed.
Oct 3, 2023
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Automotive
Photos are two-dimensional (2D), but autonomous vehicles and other technologies have to navigate the three-dimensional (3D) world. Researchers have developed a new method to help artificial intelligence (AI) extract 3D information ...
Sep 25, 2023
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Automotive
Self-driving cars will be part of the future, but researchers fear people with disabilities are being left behind in the development of the technology.
Sep 22, 2023
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Automotive
New research published in the journal Engineering, presents a novel online evolutionary decision-making and motion planning framework that ensures safe and rational driving in real-world environments. Tongji University's ...
Sep 21, 2023
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Automotive
An autonomous vehicle must rapidly and accurately recognize objects that it encounters, from an idling delivery truck parked at the corner to a cyclist whizzing toward an approaching intersection.
Sep 12, 2023
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Robotics
A newly developed robotic driving seat will be showcased at the British Science Festival by UCL researchers, as part of ongoing efforts to increase public trust in highly automated vehicles.
Sep 7, 2023
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Business
The California Public Utilities Commission recently approved petitions from two taxi companies, Waymo and Cruise, to operate paid robo-taxi services around the clock in San Francisco. The first-of-its-kind move has been widely ...
Sep 4, 2023
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Engineering
From the days when mapmakers drew dragons and sea monsters at the margins of the explored seas, the oceans have always offered unexplored mysteries. Centuries on, we have made surprisingly little progress—only around 5% ...
Sep 1, 2023
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