by dankeelan | Apr 11, 2024 | Agriculture, Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Space
A vertical farming startup from the UK is taking its technology to new heights. The UK Space Agency has awarded Vertical Future £1.5mn to build an autonomous farm in orbit. The high-tech veggie garden will be installed on the world’s first commercial...
by dankeelan | Apr 4, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Testing
Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez have announced the introduction of a new permit program aimed at overseeing the testing of autonomous vehicles (AV) in New York City. This program is part of the...
by dankeelan | Apr 4, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Transportation, Trucks
Perched in the cab of a 35,000-pound semi-truck lumbering south on Interstate 45, AJ Jenkins watched the road while the big rig’s steering wheel slid through his hands. Jenkins was in the driver’s seat, but he wasn’t driving. The gigantic 18-wheeler was guiding...
by dankeelan | Mar 28, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
The excitement of auto racing comes from split-second decisions and daring passes by fearless drivers. Imagine that scene but without the driver – the car alone, guided by the invisible hand of artificial intelligence. Can the rush of racing unfold without a driver...
by dankeelan | Mar 28, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Safety
Had they been more widely deployed between 2020 and 2022, autonomous vehicles, also known as AVs, self-driving cars or robotaxis, could have prevented more than 1,300 traffic fatalities, according to a report published Tuesday by the Chamber of...
by dankeelan | Mar 28, 2024 | Agriculture, Autonomous Vehicles, Robots
Starting in early March, dozens of large, futuristic-looking white machines started slowly trolling through farmland in The Netherlands. At first glance, the machines look like a cross between a tractor and World War I-era track-based tank, albeit with a distinctly...
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