Autonomous Vehicles news and analysis on Web Pulse: 1268 curated articles tracking the latest Autonomous Vehicles developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
AnchorVLA, a new planning framework for autonomous driving, uses trajectory-pattern anchors to bridge high-level reasoning and execution, achieving state-of-the-art results on the Bench2Drive benchmark with a 77.28% succ…
XTEND Reality Inc., a provider of AI-powered robots for hazardous environments, secured a U.S. patent for autonomous navigation technology that enables drones to continuously navigate toward operator-designated destinati…
The Pentagon released a free guidebook, 'Small Drones, Big Problems,' to help law enforcement and public agencies counter drone threats. The handbook emphasizes collective action and human judgment over technological sil…
Researchers developed PRML2, a hybrid framework combining Kalman filtering with machine learning, to improve vehicle localization accuracy in autonomous driving, especially when GPS signals are weak. The system uses phys…
A new multi-agent motion prediction method using mode-world weighted regression loss and an iterative decoder has achieved first place in the Argoverse 2 benchmark, promising to improve autonomous vehicle safety by balan…
Researchers have developed a method to formalize implicit social norms into quantifiable principles, enabling AI agents to better coordinate with humans. In pedestrian-vehicle interaction experiments, AI agents using the…
U.S. and Chinese officials resumed talks on AI governance in May 2026, highlighting the urgent need for rules governing autonomous military systems. The article argues that fear of catastrophic risks, akin to nuclear wea…
AVI-SPL launched commercial autonomous freight operations between Dallas and Houston using Volvo's self-driving VNL Autonomous truck and Aurora Innovation's TMS platform, aiming to address driver shortages and retention …
Japan's parliament passed a revision to its data protection law allowing companies to use sensitive personal data for AI development without individual consent, as long as the data does not identify specific individuals.…
Ukraine is using US-built Shield AI V-BAT drones equipped with artificial intelligence to target Russian supply lines and military infrastructure in Crimea, part of a 40-day campaign to pressure Moscow. The AI-powered su…
Researchers introduced WCog-VLA, a dual-level World-Cognitive Vision-Language-Action model that enables autonomous vehicles to transition from reactive to proactive navigation by integrating world cognition with generati…
The Seoul Design Foundation partnered with SK Intellix to deploy autonomous NAMUHX wellness robots at Dongdaemun Design Plaza to monitor air quality and offer contactless health services, turning the cultural hub into a …
A new survey from arXiv explores post-training techniques for end-to-end autonomous driving models, addressing limitations of open-loop imitation learning in safety-critical environments. The paper categorizes existing m…
A letter writer argues that self-driving ride-sharing services like Waymo need stricter regulation, noting that while human drivers face age restrictions, no such rules exist for passengers in autonomous vehicles. The wr…
Tesla confirmed its Miami Robotaxi fleet operates without human supervision, relying solely on Full Self-Driving technology. The service launched on June 3 in a 10-14 square mile zone, making Miami the second U.S. city a…
Advances in physical AI, sensors, drones, and robotics are being used to monitor the global oil and gas infrastructure, a multi-trillion dollar sector. The technology aims to improve efficiency and safety in energy infra…
Aidoptation has received the first Level 4 autonomous driving permit in the European Union, allowing it to test a fully self-driving Maserati GranTurismo Folgore at 120 km/h on Belgian highways. The company's EdgeDrive s…
New Jersey is considering a bill that would require fully autonomous vehicles to use cameras plus at least two other sensing technologies like lidar and radar, effectively banning Tesla's camera-only Robotaxis. The bill,…
A researcher argues that the fundamental difference between humans and AI systems is the lack of a doubt mechanism in AI, which causes hallucination in large language models and limits autonomous vehicles from handling e…
ZenaTech announced on July 9, 2026, that its ZenaDrone unit has moved the IQ Aqua, an AI-powered autonomous underwater vehicle for mine detection and subsea inspection, into U.S. field testing in Florida to validate perf…