Autonomous Vehicles news and analysis on Web Pulse: 1271 curated articles tracking the latest Autonomous Vehicles developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Qualcomm CFO Akash Palkhiwala told investors on June 24 that the company has an opportunity to grow annual revenue to $100 billion, up from the current $30-$40 billion range, driven by automotive, IoT, and AI. No timelin…
Agility Robotics, a maker of humanoid robots for warehouses, announced a $2.5 billion merger with Churchill Capital Group to go public. The company's Digit robot is already deployed in warehouses, backed by Amazon, Nvidi…
General Motors reported a 300% increase in merged pull requests after retooling its AI agent software, with nearly 90% of code from its autonomy team now AI-generated. The automaker's aggressive AI adoption aims to accel…
The Valley Transportation Authority carried 37,642 passengers to the World Cup match at Levi's Stadium on June 13, surpassing Super Bowl LX ridership by over 6,000. Fans cited convenience, cost savings, and a celebratory…
The National Transportation Safety Board and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are investigating a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, where a Tesla Model 3 with Full Self-Driving engaged struck a home, killing 76-y…
NVIDIA introduced BEVPoolV3, an optimized bird's-eye-view pooling operator for autonomous vehicles and robotics, reducing latency on RTX GPUs by removing redundant scatter traffic and precomputing indices. The operator a…
Clarion Partners paid $132.3 million for a Fremont industrial building leased to Tesla, signaling strong investor interest in industrial properties despite a downturn in other commercial real estate sectors. The 267,100-…
Struggling robot security company Knightscope, whose stock has fallen over 99% since 2022 and whose K5 robots have been involved in multiple mishaps, is now publishing bizarre AI-generated fan fiction depicting its robot…
EQVPS has launched an MCP-based system that allows AI agents to autonomously rent and manage virtual private servers. The agent can register an account, check plans, order a VPS, and retrieve SSH credentials without huma…
Biostar announced the EdgeComp MS-NAT5000, a compact edge AI computing system integrating the NVIDIA Jetson Thor T5000 module for generative AI, visual intelligence, and real-time sensor processing in industrial and auto…
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03B at a $3.5B valuation to build world models using JEPA, signaling a shift from LLMs to physics-aware AI. NVIDIA's Cosmos platform, trained on 20 million hours of real-world data, provid…
Researchers introduced Neuro-Symbolic Drive, a framework that supervises driving vision-language-action (VLA) models with rule-grounded reasoning traces from classical rule-based planners, improving trajectory prediction…
Researchers propose FlowR2A, a generative model that unifies scoring-based and anchor-based driving planning by learning reward-conditioned action distributions from dense trajectory-reward pairs. The method achieves sta…
Researchers introduced DriveStack-VLA, a framework that enhances Vision-Language-Action driving models with Bird-Eye-View representations and Render-Teacher Alignment to improve spatial intelligence. The model achieved s…
The 2026 Busan International Mobility Show opens Friday with only eight global brands participating, as major automakers like Mercedes-Benz Korea and Renault Korea skip the event, highlighting the declining appeal of tra…
Arm Holdings PLC's executive vice president of Physical AI Business Unit, Drew Henry, discussed the company's strategies for physical AI and robotics on The Robot Report Podcast. Arm is focusing on safe, power-efficient …
AI superintelligence could undermine nuclear deterrence by enabling a state to achieve a technological leap large enough to execute a disarming first strike, rendering second-strike capabilities obsolete. The author argu…
Tesla is pushing back against unfair media reporting of a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, after the company's data showed the driver manually overrode Autopilot by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100%. Tesla executives Elo…
Tesla admitted its Full Self-Driving system was engaged during a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, that killed a 76-year-old woman, but blamed the driver for overriding the system by pressing the accelerator to 100%. The compa…
The robotics industry's shift from physical AI 1.0 to 2.0 requires a new focus on physical state recovery to bridge the gap between sensor data and real-world conditions, as high-level reasoning alone cannot compensate f…