Trunk.tech green-lighted by Beijing to make autonomous truck road tests
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Chinese autonomous trucking startup Trunk.tech (Trunk) has become one of the first companies to obtain Beijing’s...
Read MoreGoogle’s self-driving startup Waymo argues the UK shouldn’t cap autonomous cars on the road
Waymo, the self-driving vehicles startup owned by Google, has called on the UK government not to impose limits on the number of autonomous...
Read MoreArgo, Ford to launch self-driving vehicles on Lyft’s ride-hailing app
Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI and its backer and customer Ford plan to launch at least1,000 self-driving vehicles on...
Read MoreWaymo to open offices in Pittsburgh, an AV tech hub
Waymo, Google’s former self-driving car project that’s now an independent business unit under Alphabet, is expanding its presence in the...
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon researchers teach autonomous vehicles to navigate narrow, car-lined streets
Driving through Pittsburgh’s narrow, car-lined streets can pose a challenge to even experienced drivers....
Read MoreShenzhen emerges as China’s robotaxi capital as DeepRoute.ai opens public trials in tech hub
China’s southern tech hub Shenzhen is emerging as the country’s autonomous driving capital, backed by a growing fleet of robotaxis and an...
Read MoreIntel’s Mobileye begins testing autonomous vehicles in New York City
Mobileye, the company that specializes in chips for vision-based autonomous vehicles, is now testing its AVs in New York City — a...
Read MoreBosch builds digital twin for more accurate maps
VW and Bosch are using data from the Golf 8 in Europe and a digital twin model to improve the performance of self-driving cars....
Read MoreSelf-driving startup Aurora in agreement with Reinvent SPAC
(Bloomberg) — Driverless technology startup Aurora Innovation Inc. has agreed to go public via a merger with Reinvent Technology Partners...
Read MoreToyota buys U.S. mapping, road data firm to bulk up driverless tech
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp’s research arm said on Thursday it acquired U.S.-based Carmera, a provider of maps and data for...
Read MoreHyundai Motor to pilot autonomous demand-responsive ‘RoboShuttle’ service
Hyundai Motor Company announced that it will begin a test operation of its RoboShuttle (named after ‘Robot’ and ‘Shuttle’) service on...
Read MoreXiaomi acquires an autonomous driving technology company, as industry competition heats up
Autobit reported on Friday that Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has recently acquired DeepMotion, an autonomous driving technology company....
Read MoreFord-backed Argo chooses Citigroup, JPMorgan to go public
Argo AI, the self-driving startup backed by Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG, is working with investment bankers as it prepares to go...
Read MoreStartup Halo will bring driverless car service to Las Vegas later this year on T-Mobile 5G
Driverless car startup Halo has announced a new service coming to Las Vegas later this year: a fleet of remotely operated electric...
Read MorePony.ai announces launch of Robotaxi service in Shanghai
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Chinese autonomous car technology startup Pony.ai announced on July 7 that the pilot operation of its Robotaxi service...
Read MoreYandex Self-Driving Group partners with GrubHub to bring robotic delivery to college campuses
Yandex Self-Driving Group, a unit of Yandex, the publicly-traded Russian tech giant, has announced a partnership with food delivery...
Read MoreChinese autonomous driving startup MINIEYE completes D1 funding round
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Chinese autonomous driving technology developer MINIEYE recently completed its Series D1 funding, which was led by CICC...
Read MoreGhost raises $100M Series D for autonomous driving and crash prevention tech
Autonomous driving system developer Ghost Locomotion has raised a $100 million Series D funding round, led by Sutter Hill Ventures....
Read MoreAmazon plans to build delivery robot tech in Finland
Amazon announced Thursday that it plans to develop new technology for its autonomous delivery vehicles in Helsinki, Finland. The...
Read MoreVodafone/AWS technology delivers autonomous boost for Aurrigo
Aurrigo has become one of the first companies in the UK to benefit from a new technology partnership between Vodafone and Amazon Web...
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