Autonomous Vehicles news and analysis on Web Pulse: 1267 curated articles tracking the latest Autonomous Vehicles developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A new conceptual architecture for a distributed drone-defense ecosystem combines multi-node sensor arrays, blockchain-governed drone coordination, and AI-driven multimodal decision-making. The system uses infrared signal…
Larry Salibra reports that Pony AI's robotaxi service in Shenzhen has become convenient enough for regular use, with wait times down to 3-5 minutes, allowing him to relax without monitoring the vehicle. He contrasts this…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published more than 600 new patent applications this week, and Patentlyze highlighted ten notable filings from big tech companies, including OpenAI's chip design for running AI math w…
A 2024 study of nearly 9 million U.S. death certificates found that taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease among 443 occupations, with about 1 in 100 dying from it compared with …
Beta Technologies unveiled the MV250, an autonomous hybrid-electric cargo aircraft, at the Farnborough Airshow in July, designed for military logistics. The MV250 can carry up to 2,000 pounds of cargo within a 250-nautic…
NVIDIA released its Alpamayo self-driving models as open-source code for commercial use, claiming 'exceptional performance' for the new Alpamayo 2 Super model on the LingoQA test. The move targets Japanese automakers lik…
Europe's battery-electric vehicle (BEV) market share reached 20.7% of new car registrations in the first half of 2026, up from 15.6% a year earlier, with sales topping 1.24 million units, a 33.7% increase, according to d…
Ford Motor Company will launch the Fathom electric pickup truck early next year with a starting price of $28,350 plus a $1,595 delivery charge, including bidirectional charging, BlueCruise, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, a…
BYD Cars Philippines launched the all-new BYD Atto 2 subcompact crossover and updated BYD Seal 5 DM-i compact sedan at Ayala Malls Trinoma, while celebrating the second anniversary of its Sealion 6 DM-i plug-in hybrid wi…
Shield AI and Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology announced on August 6 that three Taiwanese Mighty Hornet III attack drones flew a coordinated search mission with no human pilots, each runni…
Huawei Technologies Co.'s Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance delivered 45,046 vehicles in July, bringing cumulative 2026 deliveries to 286,000 units, a 13.7% increase year-over-year. The company's Qiankun smart drivin…
Traditional petrol stations across Asia are being converted into multi-modal power hubs as oil and power companies partner with EV manufacturers to deploy ultra-fast charging hardware, according to CleanTechnica. In Chin…
Aternium, a startup, announced on August 4 that its first deuterium/green hydrogen facility will be built at Garrison Oak Technical Park in Dover, Delaware, pending property sale closure later this year. The facility wil…
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov warned physical AI companies against adopting Silicon Valley's 'move fast and break things' mantra, urging them instead to 'move fast and ship safely' in a Y Combinator interview released this …
SAIC Volkswagen, a joint venture between SAIC and Volkswagen in China, has filed with China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for its first fully electric ID. ERA vehicle, the ID. ERA 5X SUV, which featur…
Marcos Aerospace, a Greek startup founded in Athens in January 2026, is developing Quencher, a 4,500-liter unmanned amphibious firefighting aircraft designed to attack wildfires within the critical first 20 to 30 minutes…
Australian startups Breaker, Brumby, and Superstat have raised successful funding rounds by building moats beyond software, according to a report. Breaker, founded in 2023, raised A$9 million in seed funding in February …
Physical AI, the integration of AI into autonomous systems that perceive and act in the physical world, is projected by PwC to grow from about $92 billion to surpass $489 billion by 2030, with use cases spanning manufact…
A 2026 comparison of Amazon Redshift alternatives finds ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks each optimized for different workloads, with ClickHouse leading in real-time, high-concurrency analytics and Snowfla…
BYD's Denza brand launched the Z9S EV in China, setting records with up to 1100 km (684 mi) of CLTC range and a 0-100 km/h time of 2.68 seconds for the top spec, all at a price around the average US new car price. The Z9…