Cruise is teaming up with Walmart for robo-delivery in Arizona
Cruise is partnering with Walmart to test out a delivery service using a fleet of autonomous and electric vehicles. The pilot project will...
Read MoreSelf-driving delivery firm Nuro raises $500 million as COVID-19 boosts e-commerce
(Reuters) – Self-driving delivery company Nuro, whose R2 unit has no pedals or steering wheel and only room for packages, said Monday it...
Read MoreDriverless shuttle takes road test at Tunney’s Pasture
A self-driving shuttle is being put through its paces at Tunney’s Pasture this week in what its backers are calling the first test of its...
Read MoreLidar startup Aeva to go public via $2.1 billion SPAC merger
Aeva, a Mountain View, California-based lidar company started by two former Apple engineers and backed by Porsche SE, is merging with...
Read MoreWaymo and Daimler are teaming up to build fully driverless semi trucks
Waymo and Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, announced that they are forming a “broad, global, strategic partnership” to deploy...
Read MoreSelf-driving truck startupLocomation demonstrates its truck platooning technology for state regulators
Although self-driving cars and long-haul trucks are being developed by automakers and new tech companies, regulations are still not in...
Read MoreCruise can now test driverless vehicles on the streets of San Francisco
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Honda and T. Rowe Price & Associates,...
Read MoreBaidu fully opens Apollo Go Robotaxi service in Beijing
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Baidu announced on October 11 that it has fully opened its Apollo Go Robotaxi service to ordinary users in Beijing....
Read MoreWaymo will allow more people to ride in its fully driverless vehicles in Phoenix
Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, announced it will be opening up its fully driverless vehicles to all customers of its...
Read MoreYou’ve got mail: Japan Post delivery robot debuts in Tokyo
Japan Post Co. unveiled Wednesday a self-driving mail delivery robot as demand grows for minimizing human contact amid the coronavirus...
Read MoreZoox becomes fourth company to land driverless testing permit in California
Zoox, the automated vehicle technology startup that was acquired by Amazon this year, has been issued a permit from California regulators...
Read MoreSelf-driving car bill reintroduced in House minus biggest backer
Legislation that would allow carmakers to sell as many as 100,000 self-driving vehicles per year in the U.S. is being reintroduced in the...
Read MoreBackup driver in fatal Arizona Uber self-driving car crash charged with negligent homicide
PHOENIX — The backup Uber driver involved in the first self-driving vehicle fatality has been charged with negligent homicide for being...
Read MoreAutonomous bus makes debut in China’s Chongqing
CHONGQING, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — A medium-sized bus equipped with autonomous driving technologies made its debut Thursday in Chongqing...
Read MoreYandex self driving group gets $150 million, partners with Uber to bring autonomous vehicles to U.S.
On paper, a lot is happening with Yandex’s self-driving vehicles. Yandex NV YNDX -1.2%, a Russian multinational company that specializes...
Read MoreBaidu launches its ‘Apollo Go’ robotaxi service in China’s capital city of Beijing
Three weeks after launching its “Apollo Go” robotaxi service in the Chinese city of Cangzhou, China’s tech giant Baidu Inc. announced that...
Read MoreU.S. NHTSA’s autonomous vehicle test tracking tool is light on data
In June, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed the Automated Vehicle Transparency and Engagement for...
Read MoreMotional releases expanded self-driving data set with over 1.4 billion annotated lidar points
Roughly a year ago, Scale and NuTonomy released a driverless data set called NuScenes that they claimed at the time surpassed corpora like...
Read MoreLidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4 billion SPAC merger
Luminar, the lidar startup that burst onto the autonomous vehicle scene in April 2017 after operating for years in secrecy, is merging...
Read MoreWaymo self-driving trucks hit the road in Texas
Texas will see more of Waymo in the months and years to come. On Tuesday, Alphabet’s self-driving car division said it’s officially ready...
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