Robots ride to rescue as delivery risks rise
What looks like a rolling picnic cooler stops at the crosswalk, waits for a car to pass and then navigates its way at a leisurely pace down the sidewalk in suburban Washington.
Apr 16, 2020
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Amazon's Zoox robotaxis take to California roads
The Amazon subsidiary Zoox on Monday said its self-driving vehicles with no manual controls took to California public roads over the weekend, calling it a major breakthrough for the robotaxi industry.
Feb 14, 2023
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Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple gets a million-square-foot facility at AllianceTexas
Real estate developer Hillwood is making a large bet on autonomous trucking taking off.
Jan 26, 2022
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Automotive
Image: Driving into the future
A highly autonomous self-driving shuttle has entered service at ESA's technical heart. Its official inauguration took place on Tuesday, when it was assigned a suitably spacey name – "Orbiter' – chosen through an employee ...
Nov 1, 2019
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Autonomous car tester offers guide for first responders
Google spinoff Waymo is trying to educate emergency responders on how to deal with its autonomous vehicles.
Nov 22, 2019
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Computer Sciences
i-Cave: The future of moving forward
Can you develop a vehicle that can drive both cooperatively, that is, in a column with others, and autonomously? This is the central question of the research program i-Cave, which started in 2015. Now, five years later, the ...
Nov 5, 2021
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Amazon's self-driving units coming 'sooner than people expect'
The chief executive officer of Zoox, Amazon.com Inc.'s self-driving unit, expects autonomous vehicles to be present in cities "sooner than people expect," but stopped short of saying when her own company's product would appear ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Engineering
How Zurich has to change its roads to have more e-bikes than cars
What would the streets look like if a city took half its traffic space and gave it to cycling and e-biking? Would city dwellers use their bikes more often? Might the concept of an "E-Bike City" even be a way to help reduce ...
Nov 30, 2023
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Automotive
Official: Safety lacking before Uber self-driving car crash
The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board says Uber had an ineffective safety culture when one of its autonomous test vehicles ran down and killed a pedestrian last year in Tempe, Arizona.
Nov 19, 2019
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Waymo to sell its self-driving tech to outside firms
Waymo, the former Google car division developing self-driving technology, said Wednesday it would sell a key innovation to companies that don't compete with its autonomous cars.
Mar 6, 2019
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