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Researchers proposed a safety-constrained AI framework integrating perception and control to improve autonomous UAV navigation in dense environments. The framework uses a Lagrangian-based safe Proximal Policy Optimizatio…
Micron Technology signed long-term supply agreements with General Motors and Ford in July 2026, part of $22 billion in commitments across 16 customer contracts. The company's automotive memory business posted $4.63 billi…
Researchers developed a two-stage AI pipeline that estimates wind conditions and uses reinforcement learning to improve drone trajectory tracking by 48% in turbulent winds. The method, tested in simulations, outperforms …
Rasta.AI, a Pune-based startup, uses artificial intelligence to detect and predict road damage by turning vehicles into sensors, aiming to prevent accidents. The company has surveyed over 10,000 kilometers of road and wo…
Avride Inc. integrates cloud-based vision-language models into its delivery robots to enhance situational awareness beyond onboard sensors, enabling them to understand context such as distinguishing a police officer dire…
Researchers propose using latent space generative world models to help autonomous vehicles handle unexpected situations, reducing reliance on vast training data. The approach integrates a neural network that predicts fut…
Researchers have developed a new framework called Dual-Critic Guided Diffusion Alignment (DCDA) that enables autonomous vehicles to navigate adverse weather conditions without explicit weather modeling. By using a 4D rad…
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…