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Japan’s AI-based Crossing Trials

Japanese private rail operator Odakyu Electric Railway has partnered with Nokia to carry out artificial-intelligence-based railroad crossing safety trials. The pilot, which is underway at Tamagawa Gakuenmae No 8 railroad crossing in Machida City, Tokyo, will be...

Investing in Robots Who Perform Surgery

The same sorts of detection and emergency-braking features that have helped make cars safer may soon be coming to the operating room. These could show surgeons things they can’t see with their eyes, such as real-time blood flow, and enable them to avoid tissue damage...

French Startup Introduces Battery Trailers

Customers who want to buy an electric car face the dilemma of either paying more to have a big battery pack and a long range or being forced to charge up their EVs more often. Paris-based start-up EP Tender believes it has eliminated the need to choose between cost...

How AVs Got Sidetracked

If you believed the early hype about autonomous cars, we’d all be buying them by now, or at least enjoying the view from autonomously driven ride-sharing vehicles. Needless to say, that hasn’t happened. In fact, the day that becomes a reality seems to get pushed...