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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 it to charge passen…
Waymo has partially resumed its freeway service in Phoenix after halting it in May due to a software bug that caused its autonomous vehicles to drive into closed construction zones at speed. The Alphabet-owned company re…
Omoda opened orders for the Omoda O4 EV at GIIAS 2026 in Jakarta, with a booking fee of Rp 5 million per unit and no official price announced yet. The electric vehicle features a 67 kWh battery with a claimed range of 55…
BYD, the world's largest electric vehicle maker, plans to debut its first humanoid robots in August at its Di Space experience centres in China, intensifying its rivalry with Tesla's Optimus robot. The Shenzhen-based com…
China has threatened retaliation after the United States moved to block imports of advanced robotics, including humanoid and quadruped robots, citing national security and cybersecurity risks. The Federal Communications …
Hyundai Motor Group has hired Kwon Jung-hyun, a former Samsung Electronics executive and Nvidia autonomous driving software veteran, to lead its Autonomous Driving Development Center. Kwon will oversee development and co…
Waymo today introduced Gemini and a redesigned interface for its Ojai vehicles, enabling voice commands for cabin controls and information queries while operating independently from the Waymo Driver system. The first maj…
Waymo added Google's Gemini assistant and a redesigned three-screen interface to its Ojai autonomous vehicle platform on July 29th, moving its consumer AI into the cabin while keeping it separate from the system that dri…
Waymo is adding Google's Gemini AI assistant to its Ojai robotaxi for the first time, alongside a major redesign of the in-car screen interface, as the company prepares to open the purpose-built vehicle to more public ri…
A self-driving truck builder argues that AI should not be used to automate entire companies, because unlike a truck, a company has no fixed destination and its value comes from human collaboration. The author, who builds…
Cargo theft incidents are up more than 90% since 2021, with high-tech strategic cargo thefts soaring by 1,500%, according to TruckNews.com and the FBI. The FBI has issued a public warning and deployed dedicated resources…
Comma.ai's openpilot driver-assistance system has been plagued by bugs that caused dangerous driving behaviors, including drifting right, detecting false lanelines, and cutting turns, all traced to flaws in sensor calibr…
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced bipartisan legislation that would ban the sale of connected vehicles in the US by companies with more than 15% ownership by Chinese entities, potentially affecting Mercedes-Benz, in…
The next competitive advantage in physical AI will come from engineering systems, not model intelligence, argues Qasar Younis, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. Younis contends that as AI models commoditize, the a…
The US Central Command and the United Arab Emirates are reportedly planning to launch a joint AI-focused military task force called Task Force Talon Synapse, building on years of cooperation in autonomous systems and art…
Tesla completed a $1.95 billion acquisition of an unnamed AI hardware company on July 24, disclosing the deal only in a footnote in its Q2 2026 financial filing. The bulk of the payment, $1.73 billion, is contingent on s…
OMODA & JAECOO launched the OMODA O4 globally in Indonesia on July 27, introducing the Super AI Cockpit powered by a large language model and ten AI agents. CEO Shawn Xu said Indonesia was chosen as the first country for…
A new multi-agent lane change decision model using the QMIX framework with a convolutional neural network (CNN-QMIX) can increase cooperative platooning rates by up to 26.2% for connected automated vehicles (CAVs) in mix…
Researchers introduce FogDrive, a multi-modal synthetic driving dataset for autonomous driving under fog, containing 660 scenes (~133k frames) with four synchronized cameras, LiDAR, and radar across three calibrated fog …
Hyundai Motor Group's push into physical AI and robotics is failing to offset investor concerns, as weakening automotive earnings prompt brokerages to cut target prices for Hyundai Motor and Kia. Despite Executive Chair …