Apr 16, 2020 | Robots & Drones
What looks like a rolling picnic cooler stops at the crosswalk, waits for a car to pass and then navigates its way at a leisurely pace down the sidewalk in suburban Washington. Three blocks away, Jake Williams and his three-year-old daughter Emilia wait for the...
Apr 16, 2020 | Robots & Drones
Drone delivery is one of the business ideas that suddenly makes a lot more sense in the age of the coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean you can get pizza airlifted to your home yet. In a few limited ways, operators are stepping in to help businesses limit human-to-human...
Apr 16, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Machine Learning
Computer scientists working for a high-tech division of Google are testing how machine learning algorithms can be created from scratch, then evolve naturally, based on simple math. Experts behind Google’s AutoML suite of artificial intelligence tools have now...
Apr 16, 2020 | Blockchain, Detroit, Featured, Mapping
General Motors has filed a patent application for a system that continuously updates a vehicle’s on-board maps and navigation guidance. GM said its patent application covers, “A system for updating a distributed navigation map for a motor vehicle includes one or more...
Apr 16, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
For years, auto and tech companies have been been promising that technology will change how we get around. The future, they say, is self-driving. So far, consumers haven’t been so sure. In a J.D. Power survey from late last year, consumers reported a “low level of...
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