Amazon's robotaxi unit Zoox launched its first paid service in Las Vegas on Aug. 10, 2026, entering the U.S. autonomous vehicle market with plans to expand to San Francisco and other cities. Nvidia an…
Federal regulators approved Amazon's Zoox fully autonomous vehicles to charge for rides without steering wheels, pending state and local approval, and proposed a rule to allow robotaxis without brake …
Amazon-owned Zoox received the first U.S. commercial exemption from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for a purpose-built robotaxi without steering wheel, pedals, or mirrors, allowing…
Fremont, California, is emerging as a robotics hub as Agility Robotics opens a 60,000-square-foot engineering center for its Digit bipedal robot, joining Tesla, Meta, Zoox, Pony.ai, and DoorDash in th…
Frontier AI companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA did not participate in San Francisco Pride events this year, avoiding public stances on diversity amid a broader corporate pullback from Pride celeb…
The US Department of Transportation proposed removing the requirement for brake pedals in driverless vehicles, a move that could accelerate deployment of robotaxis by companies like Waymo and Tesla. T…
Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo unit will deploy a new autonomous vehicle called the Ojai, built with China-based Geely's Zeekr, to offer public rides without human supervision in San Francisco, Los Angeles, an…
InfoQ has launched a new online certification program called the InfoQ Certified AI Engineering Program, designed for senior software practitioners such as engineers, architects, and technical leads w…