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Pokémon Go players' voluntary 3D scans trained Niantic Spatial's AI models for GPS-free navigation, which are now being combined with defense contractor Vantor's software to guide military drones when satellite signals a…
AIVA, an AI-native mobility brand backed by Seres Group and launched by Saidou Technology, debuted in Beijing on June 9, 2026, with a partnership with ByteDance's Volcano Engine to co-develop in-vehicle intelligence usin…
Burro launched the Grande 44, an autonomous mobile robot with 44 hp and 6,000 lb towing capacity, designed for heavy industrial outdoor use. The company has deployed over 750 robots and logged 1 million hours of autonomo…
A female passenger died early Sunday when a Buick sedan fleeing Santa Clara police crashed into a Toyota and then a telephone pole in San Jose, marking the city's 21st traffic fatality of 2026. The driver, who sustained …
Researchers propose RT-VLA, a lightweight vision-language-action model for autonomous driving that uses knowledge distillation from the larger SimLingo model to achieve real-time performance. RT-VLA reduces inference lat…
Xiangrui Zeng, a Chinese expert in AI-powered autonomous manufacturing and robotics, will speak at the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 in Seoul. Zeng is known for his work on 'dark factories' and embodied AI, and will dis…
A satirical driving game inspired by the Kirkland roundabouts has been released, modeling the 85th St & I-405 interchange. Players navigate lanes and avoid collisions to reach their target exit, with lane changes costing…
A modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot has climbed Ecuador's Chimborazo volcano, reaching 20,564 feet as part of a training regimen for a future Mount Everest ascent. The robot walked autonomously on sections with less tha…
Four students from San Jose's Metropolitan Education District have been accepted into Tesla's Pathway to START Internship Program, an eight-week electric vehicle service training program. The students, including one who …
The Iran War: A War with or against the AI Sector? explores the role of artificial intelligence in modern conflict, while other featured posts examine civilian costs of drone strikes, hybrid threat defense, cognitive war…
Subaru introduced the 2026 Uncharted, an electric crossover with up to 338 horsepower and over 300 miles of range, marking the brand's entry into sporty EVs. The Uncharted is Subaru's smallest SUV, offering agile handlin…
General Motors is positioning itself as a distributed utility at its GM Empower event, aiming to use its fleet of over 250,000 bidirectional EVs, stationary storage, and a unified charging platform to help stabilize the …
General Motors shut down its Cruise robotaxi division but plans to re-enter the robotaxi race by developing autonomous driving technology for personal cars that can later be applied to ride-hailing services, according to…
Ukraine is integrating artificial intelligence across battlefield functions and plans to unify those systems into a single networked command approach, a senior defence official told Reuters. Danylo Tsvok, head of the def…
NVIDIA released a bundle of physical AI agent skills at CVPR 2026, offering pre-packaged workflows for robots, self-driving cars, and visual inspection. The open-source tools aim to streamline research by providing simul…
Michigan lawmakers, led by Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin and Representative Haley Stevens, proposed the Protecting America From Chinese Cars Act, which would ban Chinese-badged vehicles from even visiting the state, …
Yann LeCun presented a talk on world models as the next step in AI, emphasizing their role in enabling machines to learn and reason like humans. The talk highlighted how world models could lead to breakthroughs in roboti…
Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun, a former Uber executive and AI researcher, says she prefers hiring Gen Z workers over industry veterans because of their adaptability and curiosity. Her autonomous trucking startup has raised ov…
London's driverless railway is still running on Windows XP, an operating system that Microsoft stopped supporting over a decade ago, raising security and reliability concerns for critical infrastructure.
GreyOrange CEO Akash Gupta discussed AI-powered warehouse orchestration on The Robot Report Podcast, highlighting the company's GreyMatter platform that coordinates robots and workers in real time. The episode also cover…