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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…
Elon Musk has built Tesla into a company worth around $1.5 trillion, exceeding the combined value of the next 10 most valuable carmakers, despite selling far fewer vehicles. Investors treat Tesla as an AI and robotics fi…
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is finalizing a new General Staff structure focused on artificial intelligence, robotics, and unmanned systems, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir announced. The reorganization aims to mak…
Mi Liangchuan, head of Xpeng's robotics business, has departed as the company pushes its Iron humanoid robot toward an end-2026 mass-production target, following the earlier exit of product lead Shi Xiaoxin. CEO He Xiaop…
Researchers introduced WildCity, a real-world multimodal dataset collected by autonomous fleets traversing complex urban environments, to advance city-scale spatial intelligence for AI. The dataset includes 18 trajectori…
The Pentagon awarded AeroVironment an $80.5 million task order for its Titan-MS AI-powered counter-drone system to protect nuclear bases, following unauthorized drone incursions at Barksdale Air Force Base. The system us…
Hanwha Systems launched a 30-ton-class unmanned surface vessel near Busan for sea trials of AI-based autonomous navigation, testing narrow-waterway navigation, rough-sea operation, and long-range autonomous runs since ea…
Three humanoid robotics companies moved toward public markets in a single week: Agility Robotics filed to go public via SPAC at $2.5 billion, Unitree cleared its Shanghai IPO, and Tesla began converting a Model S product…
NATO is building an AI-powered 'Kill Web' along its eastern flank to detect and counter a Russian attack before it begins, according to internal documents obtained by BILD. The system, called the Eastern Flank Deterrence…
Alphabet's Waymo announced plans to expand its driverless robotaxi service to Denver, San Diego, Las Vegas, and Tampa this year, initially serving only Alphabet employees before opening to the public. The expansion follo…
Valeo Embedded AI Architect Pullarao Maddu, speaking at the Embedded Vision Summit, warned that latency jitter—not average performance or peak TOPS—is the real enemy in safety-critical edge AI deployments, and that FLOPs…
Tesla confirmed it is building a feature that lets drivers teach their car where to go using natural language, with the vehicle remembering those instructions for future trips. Tesla VP of AI Software Ashok Elluswamy sai…
Tesla is developing voice-intent support for its Full Self-Driving system, allowing drivers to give contextual instructions such as identifying the correct driveway or house near a destination, as confirmed by VP of AI S…
NATO is building the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, an AI-enabled defense network using thousands of sensors, drones, satellites, and uncrewed systems to detect and slow attacks near Russia-facing borders. The syst…